Joe Bonamassa to Perform at Morris Performing Arts Center in May 2016

By: Oct. 02, 2015
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Blues guitarist JOE BONAMASSA performs at the historic Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at 8:00 p.m. sharp with the guitar event of the year.

Tickets are $82.50, $92.50, $102.50, and $128.50 and are ON SALE Friday, October 9, at 10:00 a.m. Tickets will go on sale at the Morris Box Office, by phone at 574-235-9190 or 800-537-6415, or online at www.MorrisCenter.org. Student and Military personnel who show their ID in person at the Morris Box Office receive a discount of 20% off any price ticket with a maximum of 2 tickets purchased per ID. The Morris Box Office is open regular business hours Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and is located at 211 North Michigan Street, South Bend, Indiana. Tickets can also be purchased with credit card at Morris Ticket Outlet: Hammes Bookstore & Café located in Eddy Street Commons, South Bend, IN.

Hailed worldwide as one of the greatest guitar players of his generation, JOE BONAMASSA has almost single-handedly redefined the blues-rock genre and brought it into the mainstream.

This one-night-only engagement at The MAGNIFICENT Morris is in support of Bonamassa's two most recent projects: live CD/DVD and CD/Blue-ray Set "Live at Radio City Music Hall," recorded and filmed at New York's most iconic and hallowed stage, and his first all original studio album, last year's highly acclaimed "Different Shades of Blue" which debuted at #8 on Billboard's Top 200 and was Joe's highest charting album, first Top 10, and biggest sales week in his career.

Backed by a stellar band of legendary musicians including Anton Fig (drums), Michael Rhodes (bass), Reese Wynans (piano, Hammond organ), Lee Thornburg (trumpet, horn arrangements), Paulie Cerra (saxophone), and background singers to bring a whole new life to the show which will feature new songs alongside career-spanning favorites.

As Joe Bonamassa enters his 26th year as a professional musician, he continues to blaze a remarkable versatile artistic trail, and amass an authentic, innovative and soulful body of work. Bonamassa's career began onstage opening for B.B. King in 1989, when he was only 12 years old. Today, he is hailed worldwide as one of the greatest guitar players of his generation, and is an ever-evolving singer-songwriter who has released 17 solo albums in the last 15 years, all on his own label, J&R Adventures. He founded and oversees the non-profit Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation to promote the heritage of the Blues to the next generation, fund music scholarships, and supplement the loss of music education in public schools. In 2013, Bonamassa earned his first Grammy nomination for Best Blues Album and in 2015 his fourteenth #1 Billboard Blues Album (more than any other artist) with the release of "Muddy Wolf At Red Rocks." 2014's new studio album "Different Shades of Blue" debuted at #8 on Billboard's Top 200 and was the highest charting album, first Top 10, and biggest sales week ever. In January 2016, he will complete another huge accomplishment when he headlines two shows at New York City's legendary Carnegie Hall with an All-Acoustic Set.



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