{"id":4709,"date":"2012-11-20T19:13:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T00:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2012-11-20T19:13:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T00:13:56","slug":"eric-claptons-crossroads-guitar-festival-is-going-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/eric-claptons-crossroads-guitar-festival-is-going-to-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival Is Going To New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Clapton and Billy Murray at the Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It looks like Eric Clapton and the gang are gearing up for the Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 at Madison Square Garden in New York. According to an article in the New York Times, the festival started out in Dallas, TX in 2004, then in 2007 and 2010 was held in Bridgeview, IL near Chicago. Next year it looks like the festival is renting out Madison Square Garden in Manhattan next year for an all-star lineup. Many of the usual performers will be present including Eric Clapton, Albert Lee, B.B. King and Buddy Guy, but I guarantee there are going to be many more great blues artists featured as well. I probably won’t be able to make to the show, but those of you out near New York, maybe this is your shot to attend the Crossroads Guitar Festival!<\/p>\n

What’s better than Eric Clapton and his band playing “Crossroads” for a post about the Crossroads Guitar Festival? Here’s a little taste of the show at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V-72DTZjgQ4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I wrote about an article from the New York Times advertising the new location for the Crossroads Guitar Festival. If you want to read it as well, check it out at http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/19\/eric-clapton-to-bring-guitar-festival-to-madison-square-garden\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The lineup is a dream for lovers of blues and blues-rock, with its emotional, spiraling guitar solos. Albert Lee, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan and Gary Clark Jr. are among the blues guitarists on the bill. The two concerts will also feature the Allman Brothers Band, Jeff Beck, John Mayer, Jonny Lang, Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019 and Taj Mahal. Several country artists are in the mix as well: Vince Gill, Keith Urban and Brad Paisley. Not all the artists will perform both nights, promoters said.<\/p>\n

This is the fourth time Mr. Clapton, who first rose to prominence as a blues and rock guitarist in the Yardbirds and in Cream in the 1960s, has issued a call to his friends for the Crossroads Guitar Festival, to raise money for the drug rehab center, which treats addicts in Antigua as well as those from all over the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I bet most of you are already familiar with the Crossroads Guitar Festival. The footage from the shows is top notch, so I encourage you to surf the Internet a little bit for some pretty stellar performances.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like Eric Clapton and the gang are gearing up for the Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 at Madison Square Garden in New York. According to an article in the New York Times, the festival started out in Dallas, TX in 2004, then in 2007 and 2010 was held in Bridgeview, IL near Chicago. Next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}