Sat, Apr 30, 2016, 8:00pm

Eddie Shaw: The Legend Returns

  • Sat, Apr 30, 2016, 8:00pm
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Sat, Apr 30, 2016, 8:00pm

Eddie Shaw: The Legend Returns

This event has been rescheduled from its original date of January 30, 2016. Previously purchased tickets will be honored at the April 30, 2016 performance. Refunds will be accepted at the original point of purchase.


What better way to welcome 2016 than to celebrate the return of the blues legend that left American Theatre audiences last season begging for more? Yep, Eddie’s back!  2014 Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Eddie Shaw continues to build upon his unparalleled career as a Chicago blues saxophonist/bandleader in a city where guitar, harmonica and piano players have long ruled the roost. A multiple Blues Music Award winner and perpetual nominee in the Instrumentalist–Horn category, Shaw has blown his industrial-strength sax with the likes of Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and Magic Sam. And with his Wolf Gang he has racked up the most road mileage of all Chicago bands over the past four decades, crisscrossing the country from Maine, where his upbeat, high-energy blues is a particular favorite, to countless points south and west.

In 2012, while working with some of Hampton Roads’ most accomplished blues musicians, Eddie released Eddie Shaw And The 757 Allstars Still Riding High, an album that recapped his illustrious career as blues man extraordinaire and received a nomination for “Best Traditional Blues Album” for the 2013 Blues Blast Awards.  Eddie’s ties to the ‘757’ go beyond the album; he is a long-time supporter of the Fernando Jones Blues Camps, including our very own ‘Hampton Blues Kids’. 

Event Dates

Saturday, Apr 30, 2016 • 8:00pm