Buddy Guy

Designed by the noted San Francisco architectural firm of Reid & Reid, the Golden State Theatre is a atmospheric movie palace. The interior features walls inspired by a Moorish castle and the ceiling has a fresco of a "canopy" with slight borders of "sky" showing around the perimeter. This gives the feeling of sitting in an open-air courtyard. The theater was originally equipped with lighting to simulate sunrises and sunsets.

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Monterey, we are honored to host blues legend, Buddy Guy to the Golden State Theatre!

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Show Schedule:<ul><li>Doors: 7:00pm</li><li>Show: 8:00pm</li></ul>COVID-19 INFO:<ul><li>The Golden State Theatre is requiring a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours or proof of full vaccination for entrance into the venue. At this time, masks are optional but strongly encouraged!</li></ul>The Golden State Theatre is committed to the safety and health of every patron. This event&#x27;s status may change due to developing local, state, and federal safety policies, but we&#x27;ll keep you posted if that&#x27;s the case.Refund requests will only be honored if this show is canceled or needs to be postponed for any reason. Refund requests will NOT be honored if a change of venue (i.e. an outdoor venue) is required due to local, state, or federal safety policies. Refund requests will also NOT be honored due to changes in the Golden State Theatre’s COVID-19 attendance policies. By purchasing a ticket, you agree to this refund policy.Buddy Guy:At age 82, Buddy Guy is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received 7 GRAMMY Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 37 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its &quot;100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.&quot;Though Buddy Guy will forever be associated with Chicago, his story actually begins in Louisiana. One of five children, he was born in 1936 to a sharecropper’s family and raised on a plantation near the small town of Lettsworth, located some 140 miles northwest of New Orleans. Buddy was just seven years old when he fashioned his first makeshift “guitar”—a two-string contraption attached to a piece of wood and secured with his mother’s hairpins.In 1957, he took his guitar to Chicago, where he would permanently alter the direction of the instrument, first on numerous sessions for Chess Records playing alongside Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and the rest of the label’s legendary roster, and then on recordings of his own. His incendiary style left its mark on guitarists from Jimmy Page to John Mayer. “He was for me what Elvis was probably like for other people,” said Eric Clapton at Guy’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2005. “My course was set, and he was my pilot.”Seven years later, July 2012 proved to be one of Buddy Guy’s most remarkable years ever. He was awarded the 2012 Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime contribution to American culture; earlier in the year, at a performance at the White House, he even persuaded President Obama to join him on a chorus of “Sweet Home Chicago.” Also in 2012, he published his long-awaited memoir, When I Left Home.Buddy Guy is a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to an historic era in the country’s musical evolution. He keeps looking to the future of the blues through his ongoing work with his 18-year-old protégé, Quinn Sullivan.“I worry a lot about the legacy of Muddy, Wolf, and all the guys who created this stuff,” he says. “I want people to remember them. It&#x27;s like the Ford car—Henry Ford invented the Ford car, and regardless how much technology they got on them now, you still have that little sign that says ‘Ford’ on the front.“One of the last things Muddy Waters told me—when I found out how ill he was, I gave him a call and said, ‘I&#x27;m on my way to your house.’ And he said, ‘Don&#x27;t come out here, I&#x27;m doing all right. Just keep the damn blues alive.’ They all told me that if they left here before I did, then everything was going to be on my shoulders. So as long as I&#x27;m here, I&#x27;m going to do whatever I can to keep it alive.”

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