FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 14, 2016

MEDIA CONTACT: Lacey Wright, Associate Executive Director Phone: 253.573.2360 | Email: [email protected] | Web: BroadwayCenter.org “Born to Play Guitar” See Legend at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater on May 25

Partner: Immanuel Presbyterian Church

Tacoma, Wash.– Blues legend Buddy Guy takes stage at Tacoma’s historic Pantages Theater on Wednesday, May 25 at 7:30 p.m. Limited tickets are available and on sale now.

The winner of seven Grammy Awards, including this year’s Blues of the Year Grammy Award, will deliver an unforgettable evening of blues. “Guitarist Buddy Guy – one of the last working giants from the electric blues’ greatest generation – sings and solos with reliable ferocity…” – Magazine

As a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Buddy Guy has been 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.

His awards and recognition also include 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 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."

Limited tickets are available to Buddy Guy and are on sale now. To buy 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, The Boeing Company, CHI Franciscan Health System, City of Tacoma, Davies Pearson, P.C., The Forest Foundation, MultiCare, The News Tribune, Pierce County Arts Commission, Washington State Arts Commission, and Wells Fargo.