Eric Clapton News

Rock the Raue with a night of hit after hit songs everyone knows and loves! Raue Center For The Arts is excited to announce "Icons of Vinyl: The Music of Eric Clapton & Tom Petty" featuring the PettyBreakers and Journeyman at 8 p.m. on January 12, 2019.

The McCallum Theatre presents Paul Anka and "Anka Sings Sinatra" for two performances. The Thursday, January 31, performance at 8:00pm is presented through the generosity of Paul and Carol Hill. The Friday, February 1, performance at 8:00pm is presented through the generosity of Henry and Carol Levy and Ron and Aviva Snow. A note from Paul: "The Anka Sings Sinatra tour will honor a great artist who has influenced me more than anyone else throughout my career, Frank Sinatra. It will also feature the hits that have spanned my career on this 60th anniversary year. It will be a night filled with his songs, my songs, my way!"

Following the release of her latest album Never Say Never, New York born Sari Schorr is thrilled to announce that she will be playing London's 100 Club as part of its London Blues Week on Friday 18th January with Sharrie Williams – The Princess of Rockin' Gospel Blues. 

Musco Center for the Arts at Chapman University presents the Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite Duo on January 27 at 4 pm. Blues Hall of Fame inductees guitarist Elvin Bishop and harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite offer a sizzling blues jam session seasoned with decades of experience.

Tedeschi Trucks Band, the unstoppable, Grammy-winning 12-piece musical juggernaut led by husband and wife Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi, have announced their new album 'Signs', out February 15th on Snakefarm Records / Fantasy Records in the UK.

FOREIGNER, the classic British-American rock band, has announced that it is donating proceeds from a new version of its hit song “I Want To Know What Love Is” to Shriners Hospitals for Children®. FOREIGNER recently recorded the song and created a new music video featuring Shriners Hospitals for Children patients. The new release is available for download on Google Play and iTunes beginning January 1. Fans can visit www.showthemlove.org to download or pre-order the album. Stream the single on Spotify.

Rock the Raue with a night of hit after hit songs everyone knows and loves! Raue Center For The Arts is excited to announce "Icons of Vinyl: The Music of Eric Clapton & Tom Petty" featuring the PettyBreakers and Journeyman at 8 p.m. on January 12, 2019.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Taylor Rodriguez in "One Night With Taylor Rodriguez" on December 22, 2018 at 11:30 P.M. The show explores an array of songs spanning the early 1960s to present day, all in the performer's jazz-vocalist style. This accomplished singer and songwriter will perform his original song "Angel," along with the music of some of the world's greatest entertainers; including Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble, and Eric Clapton to name a few. Taylor's vocal range, technique, and captivating performance of these classic hits, all rearranged and delivered with a jazz piano accompaniment, makes this a show not to be missed!

Artists Series Concerts of Sarasota presents "Images," with Alexander Moutouzkine, piano and Edward Alley, narrator, January 12, 7:30 p.m., and January 13, 3:00 p.m., at the Historic Asolo Theater, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota

Just in time for the holiday season, THE WOMAN IN BLACK is inviting guests to try something new this year with a holiday ticket package. For those looking to bond over a spine-tingling live theater performance, THE WOMAN IN BLACK will include a drink from the bar with the purchase of a ticket using the code HOLIDAY through January 6, 2019. An experience surely not to miss, the production has been called "Spectacular" by the Chicago Sun-Times, and "Brilliant" by Chicago Theater Review, receiving rave reviews from critics across the board. 

 Following a sold-out engagement in 2015, Blues Hall of Fame guitarist Robert Cray returns to the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) with the Robert Cray Band, Saturday, March 8, 7:30 p.m. Known for bringing blues back to the top of the charts in the 1980s, this five-time Grammy winner and recipient of the 2017 Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance will perform a mix of his most powerful good-time, uptown, low-down blues and soul material from a career that spans four decades.

Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the original Million Dollar Quartet along with Elvis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, is one of the all-time best singer-songwriters, musicians and pianists. A true American stylist, he is an architect of great genres such as rock n' roll and rockabilly as well as a commander of country music and the blues. "The Killer" holds numerous awards including Grammys and the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award. Don't miss the first great "wildman" of rock as he makes his Sarasota debut on Sunday, January 27 at 7 p.m. - LIVE at the Van Wezel!

Critically acclaimed duo Ferris & Sylvester have announced their first ever headline tour of the UK and Ireland. Running through February 2019 it will see the band play nine-dates, with a London headline show at The Lexington on February 11th. Tickets are available now through ferrisandsylvester.com/tour

Set to air on Showtime, December 11, 2018 at 7:30 pm ET/PT Still On The Run: The Jeff Beck Story documents the history of a musical maverick and true innovator, delving below the surface to shed light on the circumstances, inspiration and technicality behind the man and his music. The film features extensive interviews with Jeff both at home and in his workshop, as well as interviews with Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart,David Gilmour, Ronnie Wood, Slash, Jan Hammer, Joe Perry, Beth Hart & many more.

Adam Davenport (Naked Boys Singing: Off-Broadway, Aida: The Metropolitan Opera, High Maintenance, HBO) is back with his new single 'Change The World,' released this Friday, December 7th on all streaming platforms.

Adam Davenport (Naked Boys Singing: Off-Broadway, Aida: The Metropolitan Opera, High Maintenance, HBO) is back with his new single 'Change The World,' released this Friday, December 7th on all streaming platforms.

Paper Mill Playhouse has announced casting and the creative team for the world premiere of My Very Own British Invasion with book by Tony award winner Rick Elice (Peter and the Starcatcher).  My Very Own British Invasion is produced in association with Hal Luftig, Craig Haffner and Rodney Rigby.  

To some, FRANKE & THE KNOCKOUTS was that '80s band led by the Jersey guy who would go on to win the Academy Award and Golden Globe for writing Dirty Dancing's iconic theme song, “(I've Had) The Time of My Life.”

Larry Stewart of award-winning and chart-topping country band Restless Heart is already in the holiday spirit, releasing a reinvented cover of Celine Dion's Christmas classic, 'Don't Save It All For Christmas Day.'

Presented by The Reel Blues Fest, Inc., more than 16 blues musicians from around the country including James Montgomery, Bob Margolin, Jerry Portnoy and many others will come together on Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. for an all-star tribute to the late blues harmonica legend James Cotton.