Buddy Guy at Sandler Center For The Performing Arts

"By far without a doubt the best guitar player alive." That's Eric Clapton’s' take on Buddy, a titan of the blues who graced the Sandler Center stage in 2008 and will return on September 26th at 8pm. Guy has won six Grammy Awards along with 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, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone ranked him in the top 25 of its "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."

Guy is a genuine American treasure, and one of the final surviving connections to an historic era in the country's musical evolution...

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"By far without a doubt the best guitar player alive." That's Eric Clapton’s' take on Buddy, a titan of the blues who graced the Sandler Center stage in 2008 and will return on September 26th at 8pm. Guy has won six Grammy Awards along with 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, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone ranked him in the top 25 of its "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."

Guy is a genuine American treasure, and one of the final surviving connections to an historic era in the country's musical evolution. And still, as one glorious track on Rhythm & Blues puts it, he claims that "All That Makes Me Happy is the Blues."

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