GUITAR MASTERS: Eight Time Grammy Award Winner Buddy Guy

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Guild Hall welcomes the return of the second annual Guitar Masters festival, celebrating the artistry of the guitar with the world’s finest talents.

Greatest living Blues legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Buddy Guy was a major influence on titans Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Guy has received 8 Grammy Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, 37 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone ranked him #23 in its “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”

Sponsors

All Theater Programming is supported in part by Ellen Myers, Marders, the Daryl & Steven Roth Foundation, and funding from The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Hess Philanthropic Fund, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, The Schaffner Family Foundation, and Vital Projects Fund, with additional support from Brown Harris Stevens, Saunders & Associates, and public funds provided by Suffolk County.
All Musical Programming supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.
This program is partially funded by the County of Suffolk, with additional funds from The Elkes Foundation, Elliot Groffman and Hilary Leff, The Meehan Family, Steve and Laura Riggio, David and Deborah Roberts, Mimi Saltzman, James Schainuck, and David and Sybil Yurman.
Media Sponsors: The Purist and WEHM
VIP Lounge Sponsors: Collette Home, Two Chicks Cocktails, Amagansett Wines and Spirits, and Montauk Brewing Co.

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