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Buddy Guy Buddy Guy Buddy Guy Buddy Guy
Five Time Grammy Award Winner
Buddy Guy
with special guest Marty Sammon
Mon May 23, 7:30-9:30 pm
Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center
Builders Electric
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Builders Electric
Concert Sponsor
Isler CPA
The Eye Center
  • Description
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 6 GRAMMY® Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY® Award, 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 ranked him #23 in its "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
Though Buddy Guy will forever be associated with Chicago, his story actually begins in Louisiana. One of five children, he was born in 1936 to a sharecropper’s family and raised on a plantation near the small town of Lettsworth, located some 140 miles northwest of New Orleans. Buddy was just seven years old when he fashioned his first makeshift "guitar"—a two-string contraption attached to a piece of wood and secured with his mother’s hairpins.
These many years later, Buddy Guy is a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to an historic era in the country’s musical evolution. He keeps looking to the future of the blues through his ongoing work with his 16-year-old protégé, Quinn Sullivan. "One of the last things Muddy Waters told me—when I found out how ill he was, I gave him a call and said, ‘I’m on my way to your house.’ And he said, ‘Don’t come out here, I’m doing all right. Just keep the damn blues alive.’ They all told me that if they left here before I did, then everything was going to be on my shoulders. So as long as I’m here, I’m going to do whatever I can to keep it alive."
Ticket/Venue Info
Buddy Guy Ticket Prices
Seat
Level
Full
Price
Discount Prices
10%15%20%Youth
A63.00  56.75  53.75  50.50  31.50 
B55.00  49.50  46.75  44.00  27.50 
C47.00  42.50  40.00  37.75  23.50 
D39.00  35.25  33.25  31.25  19.50 
Silva Concert Hall
Hult Center for the Performing Arts
One Eugene Center
Eugene, Oregon
541-682-5000
Isler CPA
The Eye Center