Showing posts with label buddy guy. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Lucinda Williams, Buddy Guy, McCoury & Grisman, more to play Carolina Performing Arts 2015-16 season

Carolina Performing Arts at UNC has just announced the lineup of their 2015-16 season and as we've come to expect, it is made up of quite the eclectic mix of musical genres as well as dance, theater and more.

Among the big musicians coming as part of the new season are Lucinda Williams on October 2, Buddy Guy on October 3, Del McCoury and David Grisman playing the music of Woody Guthrie on November 14, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Denzal Sinclaire on December 11, Steep Canyon Rangers on December 12, Count Basie Orchestra on February 20, and Abigail Washburn and friends on April 17. Check out the full schedule below.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Buddy Guy announces spring tour, coming to Durham

Blues legend Buddy Guy, named by Rolling Stone as the 23rd greatest guitarist of all-time, is still going strong at 75 years old and will play a handful of headlining dates across North America this spring in addition to taking park in the Experience Hendrix Tour (stopping in Greensboro in March).

He will play the Carolina Theatre in Durham on Wednesday, April 18. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, January 13 via the venue box office and Ticketmaster for $37 to $67.

Guy's most recent album, 2010's Living Proof, won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Check out the music video for "Stay Around a Little Longer," a duet with B.B. King, from the album below.

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Experience Hendrix Tour announces spring dates, coming to Greensboro

For those who may have missed the all-star tribute to Jimi Hendrix, dubbed Experience Hendrix, when it came to the Durham Performing Arts Center in 2010, never fear, because they're hitting the road again in the spring.

The tour will stop at the War Memorial Auditorium in Greensboro on Wednesday, March 7. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster for $39 to $75.

The new tour features and number of performers featured on the 2010 tour as well as some new faces. The Greensboro lineup includes Billy Cox (of The Band of Gypsies and Jimi Hendrix Experience), Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Robert Randolph, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Dweezil Zappa, Brad Whitford (of Aerosmith), The Slide Brothers, Chris Layton (of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble) and Mato of Indigenous.