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An Evening with Buddy Guy at Hard Rock Live

Hollywood, Fla. – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Buddy Guy comes to Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 24, at 10 a.m. Fans will have access to presale tickets beginning Thursday, July 23, at 10 a.m. through Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood’s Facebook and Twitter pages.

At age 78, 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 six GRAMMY Awards, along with a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 34 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 No.23 in its “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”

Buddy Guy will release his brand new studio album “Born To Play Guitar” July 31 via RCA Records. The follow-up to his 2013 double disc release, “Rhythm & Blues,” which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Blues Albums chart, “Born To Play Guitar” is produced by GRAMMY award-winning producer, songwriter and Buddy’s longtime collaborator Tom Hambridge.

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.”

These many years later, 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 16-year-old protégé, Quinn Sullivan.

The year 2012 proved to be one of Buddy Guy’s most remarkable 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.”

Tickets cost $54, $44 & $34*; all seats are reserved and available at all Ticketmaster outlets online at www.myhrl.com, http://www.ticketmaster.com/ or charge by phone: 1-800-745-3000. Doors open one hour prior to show start time. *Additional fees may apply.