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Buddy Guy 90

  • Contemporary Music
  • Concert Hall
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Almost ninety years of a true guitar legend, experience the blues like never before

Blues icon, rock ’n’ roll titan, living legend: is it any wonder the multiple Grammy Award-winning Buddy Guy remains so vital, nearly eight decades into his singular music career? Fresh off his performance at the spiritual heart of Ryan Coogler’s blues-soaked smash Sinners, the man who inspired Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and every generation of guitar heroes returns to the Sydney Opera House for one night only, performing material from across his wildly storied career.

Born to a Louisiana sharecropper’s family in 1936, Guy famously fashioned his first guitar at the age of seven, and in 1957 relocated to Chicago to play on the legendary Chess Records label alongside the likes of Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters. An incendiary player whose explosive licks provided the blueprint for Hendrix, Richards, Page, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and countless other guitarists, Guy has sustained a career of remarkable longevity and relevance, dazzling audiences with his anarchic virtuosity, even as he approaches 90.

This is a rare chance to experience a living custodian of rock ’n’ roll in all his volcanic splendour, a time machine to the past who simultaneously points music’s way back to the future.

Presented by Sydney Opera House

Event details

I’ve been playing the blues a long time, but there’s nothing like bringing it to new places and old friends. Australia’s got some real blues lovers, and I can’t wait to get back and make that guitar talk for them one more time.

Buddy Guy

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Attending this event

Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Concert Hall

The Concert Hall is located beneath the largest of Sydney Opera House’s roof sails, filling the upper levels of the west side of the building. Best accessed through the covered concourse. 

All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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