Buddy Guy was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 20 years ago next month.
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CHAMPAIGN — A year after rocking the Virginia Theatre, one of music’s all-time guitar greats is coming back for an encore.
A month before turning 89, Chicago blues icon Buddy Guy will play the downtown Champaign venue he visited last summer, during his “Damn Right Farewell” tour, it was announced Tuesday.
The June 24 return trip is part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s “Damn Right Encore” tour, which kicks off following a 16-show residency at the Buddy Guy’s Legends blues club in Chicago.
You name it, Guy has won it — eight Grammys, the Presidential National Medal of Arts, a record 38 Blues Music Awards and the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, to name a few.
Tickets — priced at $79.50 to $109.50, plus a processing fee of $8 to $11 — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at the Virginia Theatre box office.
Taj Farrant, a 15-year-old Australian blues prodigy, will open for Guy.