FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 3, 2015
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Legendary Blues Performer Buddy Guy Returns to Tacoma’s Pantages Theater May 25, 2016
Tacoma, Wash.– A six-time Grammy-Award winner and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, blues icon Buddy Guy returns to Tacoma’s historic Pantages Theater for a concert on May 25, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale now for Broadway Center Members, and go on sale to the public on November 9 at 11:00 a.m.
At age 79, Buddy Guy is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received 6 GRAMMY Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 34 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its “100 National Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”
Buddy Guy released his brand new studio album Born to Play Guitar on July 31, 2015, via Silvertone/RCA Records, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Blues Albums chart. The follow-up to his 2013 first-ever double disc release, Rhythm & Blues, which also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Blues Albums chart, Born to Play Guitar is produced by GRAMMY Award-winning producer/songwriter and Buddy’s longtime collaborator, Tom Hambridge. The new release features guest appearances by Van Morrison, Joss Stone, Kim Wilson and Billy Gibbons.
Tickets to Buddy Guy at the Pantages Theater on May 25 are $34, $59, $85, and $110 and are on sale now for Broadway Center Members. Tickets go on sale to the public on Monday, November 9 at 11:00 a.m. To purchase tickets, call the Broadway Center Box Office at 253.591.5894, toll-free 1.800.291.7593, visit in person at 901 Broadway in Tacoma's Theater District, or online at BroadwayCenter.org.
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The Broadway Center for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the following for support of the 2015-16 Season: ArtsFund, Ben B. Cheney Foundation, The Boeing Company, CHI Franciscan Health System, City of Tacoma, The Forest Foundation, MultiCare, The News Tribune, Pierce County Arts Commission, The Puyallup Tribe of Indians, Washington State Arts Commission, and Wells Fargo.