The Union County Performing Arts Center is hosting an evening with Buddy Guy. This event will take place this evening at 8:00pm. Tickets range from $40 - $85. For more information, visit www.ucpac.org or call 732-499-8226. Buddy Guy will be performing from his new album "Living Proof".
Six-time Grammy Award winner and legendary Blues king, BUDDY GUY will take the stage at the Union County Performing Arts Center on Friday, November 4. The evening concert includes a special guest performance by Indigenous and Michael Williams. Tickets are on sale now at $85, $70, $60, $50 & $40 (price includes all fees) call the UC PAC box office at 732-499-8226, or visit www.ucpac.org
Buddy Guy has established himself as a pioneer of the Chicago blues sound, and has served as an influence to some of the most notable musicians of his generation. Guy is known, too, for his showmanship on stage, playing his guitar with drumsticks, or strolling into the audience while playing solos. He was ranked thirtieth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". His song "Stone Crazy" was ranked seventy-eighth in list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time also of Rolling Stone.
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Guy previously served on the Hall of Fame’s nominating committee. Guy has won six Grammy Awards both for his work on his electric and acoustic guitars, and for contemporary and traditional forms of blues music. In 2003, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. This medal is awarded by the President of the United States of America to those who have made extraordinary contributions to the creation, growth and support in the arts in the United States. By 2004, Guy had also earned 23 W.C. Handy Awards (more than any other artist has received), Billboard magazine's The Century Award (Guy was its second recipient) for distinguished artistic achievement, and the title of Greatest Living Electric Blues Guitarist.
In 2008, Buddy Guy was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame while performing at Texas Club in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
