Experience Hendrix Tour 2014 to Include Zakk Wylde, Bootsy Collins, Buddy Guy
Announce 2014′s Experience Hendrix Tour, the guitar-centric tribute to Jimi Hendrix that’s run on and off since its first incarnation as the Jimi Hendrix Guitar Festival at Bumbershoot ’95. This year’s tour will feature Buddy Guy, Bootsy Collins and Zakk Wylde, along with a busload of other guitar legends including Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang, Dweezil Zappa, Eric Gales, Eric Johnson, Serbian blues-rocker Ana Popovic, Doyle Bramhall II, Mato Nanji of Indigenous, and Los Lobos co-frontmen Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo.
The tour is set to kick off March 11 in Dallas and run through April 3′s Detroit show.
Other than Wylde and Popovic, the other artists have played the tour in the past. John McDermott, one of the tour’s organizers, told Radio.com that while Wylde, Hildago, Guy, Zappa and Collins may be an odd combination, the goal of the tour is to show the scope of Hendrix’s musical influence.
“We try to follow the roots to the fruits,” McDermott said. “Before he passed away, we had [blues legend] Hubert Sumlin, who was a favorite of Jimi’s. We have Buddy Guy, who is a favorite of Jimi’s. We like to have a variety of [younger] players to show how broad and deep the influence is. “
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakk_Wylde
While Wylde spends most of his time on the road playing to all-metal audiences, it’s not all that surprising that he signed on for this tour given his fandom (one of his sons is named Hendrix). As for the other tour rookie, Popvic, she first came to the attention of Hendrix fans via a cover of “Belly Button Window” on the 2000 tribute album Blue Haze. “Ana is somebody who we had seen, we saw a performance of ‘If 6 Was 9,’ which was great, so she was a no-brainer for us,” McDermott said.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, who has been doing the Experience Hendrix tours since they started in 2004, says he’s looking forward to having both Popvic and Wylde on the bill this time around. “I’m always curious to see when they bring somebody new in, what songs they’re going to choose and what their interpretation is going to be of Hendrix’s music.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Wayne_Shepherd
Algunos shows de la gira serán:
March 11 - Dallas, Texas - Verizon Theater
March 13 - St. Louis, Mo. - Fox Theater
March 14 - Chicago, Ill. - Chicago Theater
March 15 - Ames, Iowa - Stephens Auditorium
March 16 - Milwaukee, Wisc. - Riverside Theater
March 18 - Louisville, Ky. - Whitney Hall
March 19 - Charleston, W. Va. - Clay Center
March 20 - Pittsburgh, Pa. - Benedum Theater
March 21 - Glenside, Pa. - Keswick Theater
March 22 - Atlantic City N.J. - Harrahs
March 23 - Wilkes-Barre, Pa. - Kirby Center for the Performing Arts
March 25 - Red Bank, N.J. - Count Basie Theater
March 28 - Albany, N.Y. - Palace Theater
March 29 - Waterbury, Conn. - Palace Theater
March 30 - Washington, D.C. - Lincoln Theater
April 1 - Buffalo, N.Y. - Center of Arts
April 2 - Northfield, Ohio - Hard Rock Theater
April 3 - Detroit, Mich. - Fox Theater
