THIS SHOW IS POSTPONED FROM OCT. 25, 2023 UNTIL JULY 23, 2024
Buddy Guy "Damn Right Farewell" Tour
MOBILE SAENGER THEATRE
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25 AT 7:30PM
TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2024 AT 7:30PM
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
Ticket Prices: $45.50 and up
(Additional fees may apply.)
Presented by AEG Presents
Tickets can be purchased online at Ticketmaster. Purchase in person at the Saenger Theatre Box Office (6 South Joachim Street; open Monday ā Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; 251-208-5600) or the Mobile Civic Center Box Office (401 Civic Center Drive; open Monday ā Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 251-208-7906). For information regarding accessible seating tickets, call 251-208-7381. The historic Saenger Theatre building is not elevator equipped. (Additional fees, service charges and/or taxes may be added to ticket prices. All dates, acts and ticket prices subject to change without notice.)
About The Artist:
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 Chicagoās fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the cityās 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."
In 2019, Buddy Guy won his 8th and most recent GRAMMY Award for his 18th solo LP, āThe Blues Is Alive And Wellā. In July of 2021, in honor of Buddy Guyās 85th birthday, PBS American Masters released āBuddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Awayā, a new documentary following his rise from a childhood spent picking cotton in Louisiana to becoming one of the most influential guitar players of all time. The documentary features new interviews with Buddy Guy, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Gary Clark Jr, and more. Watch the full documentary at PBS Online here.
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 sharecropperās 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 āguitarāāa two-string contraption attached to a piece of wood and secured with his motherās hairpins.
In 1957, he took his guitar to Chicago, where he would permanently alter the direction of the instrument, first on numerous sessions for Chess Records playing alongside Howlinā Wolf, Muddy Waters, and the rest of the labelās legendary roster, and then on recordings of his own. His incendiary style left its mark on guitarists from Jimmy Page to John Mayer. āHe was for me what Elvis was probably like for other people,ā said Eric Clapton at Guyās Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2005. āMy course was set, and he was my pilot.ā
Seven years later, July 2012 proved to be one of Buddy Guyās most remarkable years ever. He was awarded the 2012 Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime contribution to American culture; earlier in the year, at a performance at the White House, he even persuaded President Obama to join him on a chorus of āSweet Home Chicago.ā Also in 2012, he published his long-awaited memoir, When I Left Home. These many years later, Buddy Guy remains a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to an historic era in the countryās musical evolution.