JOE BONAMASSA
WED 31 MAR @ 7:30PM
- Price
- $60.50 OVER 18'S ONLY
- Bookings
- (02) 9550 3666
- Mode
- Concert Mode - General Admission Standing
- Tickets
- On sale now @ Factory Theatre
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Joe Bonamassa is so good, he recently sold out London’s The Royal Albert Hall!
He’s being watched as potentially the next big thing in the blues, but could he even be the one to bring the blues back to mainstream success? Sam Leach, one of the Beatles earliest promoters in the U.K., compared the first time he saw Joe Bonamassa to his initial glimpse of the Fab Four - “I got that same feeling of excitement.” He went on to call Joe the “premiere blues/rock artist on the planet.” Remarkably, the 2009 release of The Ballad Of John Henry coincides with Joe Bonamassa’s twentieth year as a professional musician, an extraordinary timeline for a young artist just into his thirties.
A child prodigy, Bonamassa was finessing Stevie Ray Vaughan licks when he was seven and by the time he was ten, had caught B.B. King’s ear. By age 12, Bonamassa was opening shows for the blues icon (something he also did recently as the opener on King’s 80th birthday tour), and went on to tour with venerable acts including Buddy Guy, Foreigner, Robert Cray, Stephen Stills, Joe Cocker and Gregg Allman. He was named Guitar Player’s “Best Blues Guitarist” in 2007 and 2008 and has won Blues Wax’s “Artist of the Year” an unprecedented three times. Bonamassa circles the globe playing an average of 200 shows a year, and his mind-blowing guitar wizardry and electrifying stage presence are selling out progressively larger venues all the time - leading to that incredible debut at Royal Albert Hall. Classic Rock magazine wrote, “They’re calling him the future of blues, but they’re wrong - Joe Bonamassa is the present; so fresh and of his time that he almost defines it.”
