Guitarist

At age 86, Buddy Guy is a Rock & 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 8 GRAMMY Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 38 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."

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Buddy Guy with Eric Gales

Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove

Eric Gales is a blues firebrand. The man Joe Bonamassa calls “one of the best, if not the best, guitar player in the world” has continued to reinvigorate the blues with a personal revelation of his struggles in his lyrics and bold stylistic twists in his guitar playing and songwriting. In a career of more than three decades, he has produced 18 albums and earned the respect of some of the greatest guitarists in the world, including Carlos Santana, Dave Navarro and Mark Tremonti. He is a guitarists’ guitarist.

Guitarist

Eric Gales

Events

Past events

Aug 6, 2023

Buddy Guy with Eric Gales · Stern Grove Festival

Dec 4, 2022

Eric Gales · The Lyric Theatre

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