Stevie Ray News

?Experience the ultimate guitar concert as our favorite bluesman, Robert Cray, returns to Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Friday, May 8 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $55, $70 and $85 and are available online at www.whbpac.org or by calling the Box Office at (631) 288-1500.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced additional guests for the 30th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, presented by Klipsch Audio, tonight, April 18, 2015 at Cleveland's historic Public Hall.

Blues-rock guitar hero Joe Bonamassa proves once again that blues music is alive and well with his chart-topping tribute to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf.

Tickets for the 11th Annual MusiCares Map Fund Benefit Concert are now available to purchase.

?HBO has renewed its commitment to The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation by acquiring the rights to present the annual induction ceremony for three more years, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.

Rolling across America on a sizzling summer run, Tedeschi Trucks Band's “Wheels of Soul” tour brings the Grammy-winning, 11-piece blues-rock dynamo together with soul sensation Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, and acclaimed guitarist Doyle Bramhall II

The 11th annual MusiCares MAP Fund® benefit concert will honor The Who's GRAMMY®-winning singer/songwriter Pete Townshend, and The Who's longtime manager, music and film producer Bill Curbishley at the Best Buy Theater in New York on May 28.

The National GUITAR Museum announced that Buddy Guy, the pioneering electric blues guitarist who influenced a generation of rock guitarists, is the recipient of its 'Lifetime Achievement' Award for 2014. Buddy is the fifth recipient of the award, following David 'Honeyboy' Edwards in 2010, Roger McGuinn of The Byrds in 2011, B.B. King in 2012, and 'James Bond' guitarist Vic Flick in 2013. Scroll down for photos!

Today, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its Inductees for 2015.

Two-time GRAMMY Award winner John Hampton, a legendary producer and engineer, died on Friday, December 12, from complications from cancer. He was 61. The Recording Academy released the following statement on his passing.

George starts off this easy funky rhythm guitar lesson by first performing the riff so you can hear how it should sound. This funk style riff is in the key of A and is based in the pentatonic scale and is a great riff for learning the muting technique that was made really popular by guitarists like Stevie Ray Vaughn if songs like Pride and Joy.

Today, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts announced American Idol Season 11 winner and critically acclaimed artist Phillip Phillips will make his Santa Rosa debut tonight, December 12, 2014 at 8:00 PM at the Ruth Finley Person Theater (50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa).

Pat Halloran, longtime President and CEO of the Memphis Development Foundation which operates The Orpheum Theatre, has announced plans to retire on December 31, 2015. Halloran joined the Memphis Development Foundation (MDF) in 1980 and will have completed 35 years of service at the time of his retirement.

The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing will celebrate its eighth annual GRAMMY Week event honoring three-time GRAMMY winner Nile Rodgers for his commitment to excellence and ongoing support for the art and craft of recorded music.

ldly successful twenty-five date national excursion this past March and April, the Experience Hendrix Tour is set to launch another trek across the U.S. in September and October, which will include a performance in Mesa Arts Center's Ikeda Theater tonight, October 7 at 7:30 p.m.

New York's own ARJUN is continuing to push musical boundaries with a new album to be released today, September 26th at Rockwood Music Hall. Prior to the release of the album Core, the group released the track “Core,” the new single featuring John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood) on August 26.

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. He will return to the Fox Theatre, after wildly popular performances in 2011 and 2013, on Saturday, April 18 at 8 p.m.

For the first time ever, Blues Rock Guitarist Steve Hunter, renowned for his work with Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed and Alice Cooper, is captured on film playing a career-spanning anthology in an intimate setting with some of the worlds finest players.

Today, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts announced American Idol Season 11 winner and critically acclaimed artist Phillip Phillips will make his Santa Rosa debut on Friday, December 12, 2014 at 8:00 PM at the Ruth Finley Person Theater (50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa).

New York's own ARJUN is continuing to push musical boundaries with a new album to be released September 26th at Rockwood Music Hall. Prior to the release of the album Core, the group released the track “Core,” the new single featuring John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood) on August 26.