TRIBUTE CONCERT HONORING THE LEGENDARY BUDDY GUY WITH BLUES GUITARIST JIMMIE VAUGHAN IN CHICAGO’S MILLENNIUM PARK ON July 20
Guy to Receive First Annual Great Performer of Illinois Award
Blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan will
headline a special tribute concert on July 20, 2008 honoring Chicago
blues legend Buddy Guy during the Great Performers of Illinois festival
in Millennium Park. Guy, an internationally acclaimed blues guitarist
and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, will receive the first Great
Performer of Illinois award for his outstanding contributions to popular
music and American culture.
The free concert, which will begin at 8 p.m. at the Jay
Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park, will feature
Grammy-award winning Jimmie Vaughan and the Tilt A Whirl Band and Lou
Ann Barton. Other special guest artists will pay tribute to Guy.
The tribute will be the highlight and finale of the annual
Great Performers of Illinois festival, three days of free entertainment,
July 18-20, by more than 50 performers from throughout the state
presenting pop, rock, blues, Latin, folk, classical, and spoken word
performances.
For more information about Great Performers of Illinois, call
312.742.1168 or visit www.greatperformersofillinois.com. Great
Performers of Illinois 2008, the third annual celebration of the arts
unique to Illinois, is presented by the Illinois Arts Council, the
Chicago Office of Tourism, and the Chicago Department of Cultural
Affairs.
Located in downtown Chicago on Michigan Avenue between Randolph
and Monroe Streets, the 24.5-acre Millennium Park is an unprecedented
center for world-class art, music, architecture and landscape design.
Among the park's prominent features are the Frank Gehry-designed Jay
Pritzker Pavilion, the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its
kind in the United States; the interactive Crown Fountain by Jaume
Plensa; the contemporary Lurie Garden designed by the team of Gustafson
Guthrie Nichol, Piet Oudolf and Robert Israel; and Anish Kapoor's hugely
popular Cloud Gate sculpture. For more information, visit www.millenniumpark.org.
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5X Grammy Award Winning Buddy Guy to be Inducted in the 2005 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Grammy-Winning Silvertone Artist Buddy Guy
will be inducted in the 2005 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame it was announced
today. Buddy will join U2, Percy Sledge, The O'Jays and The Pretenders
at the 20th Annual Induction Ceremony to be held March 14th in New York
City.
The Foundation's nominating committee, composed of Rock and
Roll historians, selects nominees each year in the "artist" category.
Ballots are then sent to an international voting body of about 700 rock
experts. Past inductees include: Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Elvis
Presley, Bob Dylan, Cream, Bruce Springsteen and The Rolling Stones.
Buddy is currently working on a new album with producer John
Porter (The Smith, Los Lonely Boys and B.B.King). Carlos Santana as well
as other surprise musical guests will join Buddy for this late 1st
quarter release.
Buddy Guy is an internationally renowned blues guitarist,
singer and showman who is considered the master of Chicago-style
electric blues. In a career spanning more than 45 years, he has received
five Grammy Awards, and a Billboard Century Award. The Chicago's blues
king has influenced rock guitar greats Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn,
Keith Richards, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. He is also the proprietor of
Buddy Guy's Legends, a blues nightclub in downtown Chicago established
in 1989.
2003 was an amazing year for Buddy whose new acoustic CD Blues
Singer was released on June 3rd to rave reviews. Blues Singer earned
Buddy his 5th Grammy in 2003. Buddy Guy was the recipient of the Medal
of Arts, which was presented by President George W. Bush in November
2003. The Medal of Arts, established by Congress in 1984, is awarded by
the President to those who have made extraordinary contributions to the
creation, growth and support in the arts in the United States. Buddy
also received his 21st W.C. Handy Award, the most any one artist has
ever received.
Buddy Guy was also honored by the Recording Academy's Chicago
Heroes Award on November 6, 2003. Recording Academy President Neil
Portnow gave a short call of musicians Buddy Guy has performed with, as
well as the guitarists he inspired, such as Jimi Hendrix Stevie Ray
Vaughan and Eric Clapton. "Buddy is a living example of excellence: a
thrilling instrumentalist, a soulful singer, and a peerless stage
performer," Portnow said.
Source: The Zomba Label Group
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