BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:SoDel X-WR-CALNAME:Buddy Guy BEGIN:VEVENT UID:271802025-07-10 DTSTART:20250710T230000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20250710T040000Z LOCATION:31806 Lake View Drive\nSelbyville DE 19975 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=31806 Lake View Drive\nSelb yville DE 19975;X-APPLE-RADIUS=49;X-TITLE=31806 Lake View Drive:geo:38.466 017,-75.112054 GEO:38.466017;-75.112054 SUMMARY:Buddy Guy CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:At age 87\, Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee\, a major\ninfluence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix\, Eric Clapton\, and S tevie\nRay Vaughan\, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound\, and a\nliving link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy\ nhas received 8 GRAMMY Awards\, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY\nAward\ , 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received)\, the\nBillboar d Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic\nachievement\, a Kenne dy Center Honor\, and the Presidential National\nMedal of Arts. Rolling St one Magazine ranked him No. 23 in its \"100\nGreatest Guitarists of All Ti me.\" In 2019\, Buddy Guy won his 8th and\nmost recent Grammy Award for hi s 18th solo LP\, “The Blues Is Alive\nAnd Well.” In July 2021\, in hon or of Buddy Guy’s 85th birthday\,\nPBS American Masters released “Budd y Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues\nAway\,” a new documentary following hi s rise from a childhood spent\npicking cotton in Louisiana to becoming one of the most influential\nguitar players of all time. The documentary feat ures new interviews\nwith Buddy Guy\, Carlos Santana\, Eric Clapton\, John Mayer\, Gary Clark\nJr\, and more. Watch the full documentary at PBS Onli ne here. Though\nBuddy Guy will forever be associated with Chicago\, his s tory actually\nbegins in Louisiana. One of five children\, he was born in 1936 to a\nsharecropper’s family and raised on a plantation near the sma ll town\nof Lettsworth\, located some 140 miles northwest of New Orleans. Buddy\nwas just seven years old when he fashioned his first makeshift\n“ guitar” — a two-string contraption attached to a piece of wood\nand se cured with his mother’s hairpins. In 1957\, he took his guitar\nto Chica go\, where he would permanently alter the direction of the\ninstrument\, f irst on numerous sessions for Chess Records playing\nalongside Howlin’ W olf\, Muddy Waters\, and the rest of the label’s\nlegendary roster\, and then on recordings of his own. His incendiary\nstyle left its mark on gui tarists from Jimmy Page to John Mayer. “He\nwas for me what Elvis was pr obably like for other people\,” said Eric\nClapton at Guy’s Rock and R oll Hall of Fame induction in 2005. “My\ncourse was set\, and he was my pilot.” Seven years later\, July 2012\nproved to be one of Buddy Guy’s most remarkable years ever. He was\nawarded the 2012 Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime contribution to\nAmerican culture\; earlier in the year\ , at a performance at the White\nHouse\, he even persuaded President Obama to join him on a chorus of\n“Sweet Home Chicago.” Also in 2012\, he p ublished his long-awaited\nmemoir\, When I Left Home. These many years lat er\, Buddy Guy remains a\ngenuine American treasure and one of the final s urviving connections\nto a historic era in the country’s musical evoluti on. Venue: Freeman\nArts Pavilion. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:At age 87\, 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 Chicago’s fabled West S ide sound\, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blu es. Buddy Guy has received 8 GRAMMY Awards\, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement G RAMMY Award\, 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received)\, t he Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement \, a Kennedy Center Honor\, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. R olling Stone Magazine ranked him No. 23 in its \"100 Greatest Guitarists o f All Time.\" In 2019\, Buddy Guy won his 8th and most recent Grammy Award for his 18th solo LP\, “The Blues Is Alive And Well.” In July 2021\, in honor of Buddy Guy’s 85th birthday\, PBS American Masters released “Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away\,” a new documentary follow ing his rise from a childhood spent picking cotton in Louisiana to becomin g one of the most influential guitar players of all time. The documentary features new interviews with Buddy Guy\, Carlos Santana\, Eric Clapton\, J ohn Mayer\, Gary Clark Jr\, and more. Watch the full documentary at PBS On line 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 sharecropper’s family and raised on a plantation near the smal l town of Lettsworth\, located some 140 miles northwest of New Orleans. Bu ddy was just seven years old when he fashioned his first makeshift “guit ar” — a two-string contraption attached to a piece of wood and secured with his mother’s hairpins. In 1957\, he took his guitar to Chicago\, w here he would permanently alter the direction of the instrument\, first on numerous sessions for Chess Records playing alongside Howlin’ Wolf\, Mu ddy Waters\, and the rest of the label’s legendary roster\, and then on recordings of his own. His incendiary style left its mark on guitarists fr om Jimmy Page to John Mayer. “He was for me what Elvis was probably like for other people\,” said Eric Clapton at Guy’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2005. “My course was set\, and he was my pilot.” Sev en years later\, July 2012 proved to be one of Buddy Guy’s most remarkab le years ever. He was awarded the 2012 Kennedy Center Honor for his lifeti me contribution to American culture\; earlier in the year\, at a performan ce at the White House\, he even persuaded President Obama to join him on a chorus of “Sweet Home Chicago.” Also in 2012\, he published his long- awaited memoir\, When I Left Home. These many years later\, Buddy Guy rema ins a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to a historic era in the country’s musical evolution. Venue: Freeman Ar ts Pavilion. DTSTAMP:20261028T231219Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR