Centennial Terrace | 7:30 p.m.

Buddy Guy
John Hiatt and the Goners featuring Sonny Landreth

Tickets on sale at etix.com or Stranahan Theater box office 419-381-8851.
Tickets:
Tier 1 Reserved: $76
Tier 2 Reserved: $66
General Admission: $38 (Standing or bring a small chair) / $42 day of the show at the door, if not sold out.

Additional Show Info: Doors @ 6pm / No outside food or beverage / Rain or Shine event / Umbrellas not permitted / Parking $5 (Centennial Lot) / Smoking allowed in designated areas only.

Buddy Guy
At age 81, 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 7 Grammy Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, 37 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.”

Guy released his latest studio album Born To Play Guitar in 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 was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer/songwriter and Buddy’s longtime collaborator Tom Hambridge. The release features guest appearances by Van Morrison, Joss Stone, Kim Wilson and Billy Gibbons.

These many years later, Buddy Guy is a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to a historic era in the country’s musical evolution.

John Hiatt
One of the best and most respected songwriters of his generation, John Hiatt was a hero among critics and his fellow musicians long before a larger audience discovered his work as a recording artist. Known for lyrics that can turn from acidic wit to bitter self-examination at a moment’s notice, Hiatt’s work is also dominated by strong, engaging melodies that take rock and blues tropes and reshape them into fresh sounds and the sharp but thoughtful report of his voice.