Buddy Guy 90th Birthday Concert Set for Oct. 1 at
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- Buddy Guy will headline "Buddy's Got the Blues: A 90th Birthday Concert Celebration" on Oct. 1 at New York's Radio City Music Hall, with tickets going on sale to the general public on June 26 at 10 AM ET.
- The lineup includes Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks, Jon Batiste, Gary Clark Jr., Joe Bonamassa, Robert Cray, Billy F Gibbons, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jimmie Vaughan, Bobby Rush, and others, with more special guests to be announced.
- Steve Jordan will serve as musical director; executive producers are Keith Wortman, Garry Buck, and Scooter Weintraub, with the show produced by Blackbird Presents and Live Nation.
- Guy, a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and Chicago West Side blues pioneer, has won nine Grammy Awards — including one for his 2025 album "Ain't Done With the Blues" — a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, 38 Blues Music Awards, the Presidential National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honor.
- Guy said in a statement: "Can't wait to celebrate 90 years of living, loving, and playing the Blues with all my friends. We'll make it a night not just for me, but for the folks who taught us, the friends we've played with, and the ones coming up behind us."
- The show's roster spans generations of blues and guitar royalty, pairing British blues-rock disciples like Clapton with contemporaries (Cray, Gibbons) and younger torchbearers like Samantha Fish, Ally Venable, and Isaiah Sharkey.
Why it matters: The Oct. 1 concert gathers more than 20 of blues and rock's biggest names on one stage for Guy's 90th — a rare, career-capping salute to the Chicago West Side pioneer who shaped the British blues-rock boom and whose influence stretches from Clapton to a new generation of guitarists.
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