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[Cancelled] Spring Benefit Concert: The Robert Cray Band
April 18, 2020 @ 8:00 am PDT
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Robert Cray coming to Solvang Festival Theater
The Robert Cray Band will be performing at Solvang Festival theater for the first time on Saturday, April 18. Cray, the legendary blues guitarist and vocalist, is a five-time Grammy Award winner and Blues Hall of Fame inductee. His not-to-be-missed concert is being presented by Solvang Theaterfest as the spring benefit concert for Solvang Festival Theater. All proceeds from the event go into maintenance of the iconic 46-year-old outdoor theater.
Cray has been bridging the lines between blues, soul, and R&B for four decades. In 2018, MusicRadar magazine named him one of the best blues guitarists in the world. His sound is so impeccable, Fender carries a Robert Cray Stratocaster in its Signature Series of guitars. Bonnie Raitt lauds her fellow blues artist as putting on “one of the best shows you’ll ever see.”
Cray has more that 20 albums to his name. His newest effort, “That’s What I Heard,” is set for release on February 28. Cray describes the album as “funky, cool, and bad,” exactly what you’d expect from an artist who has earned the Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance. Cray lives in the Santa Ynez Valley with his wife, Sue Turner Cray, and their son.
For more information and tickets for The Robert Cray Band, visit www.solvangfestivaltheater.org. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. The Robert Cray Band goes on at 8 p.m.
Solvang Theaterfest is the 501 (C)(3) that owns and operates Solvang Festival Theater. For more information, contact Executive Director Mary Ann Norbom at 805-686-1789.