BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A platinum-selling blues guitarist who for three decades has topped the genre's albums chart will play Wind Creek Event Center, it has been announced.
Blues star Kenny Wayne Shepherd will perform at the venue at 8 p.m. Friday, March 6, as part of a 30th anniversary tour for his 1995 chart-topping, platinum debut album "Ledbetter Heights."
Tickets for the show, at $39.50-$99.50, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3.www.windcreekeventcenter.com
Tickets for the show, at $39.50-$99.50, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at the venue website and the box office at 77 Wind Creek Event Center, Bethlehem.
Shepherd, who began performing professionally as a 13-year-old prodigy, released "Ledbetter Heights" just after he had turned 19.
The album produced three songs that crossed over to the Top 25 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart — the Top 10 "Déjà Voodoo," "Born with a Broken Heart" and "Aberdeen" — and made Shepherd a hit.
Shepherd's sophomore album, 1997's "Trouble Is ...," also hit No. 1 on the Blues chart and sold platinum, and still holds the record for the longest-running album on the Blues chart.
That album produced four Top 10 Mainstream Rock hits, including his biggest hit, the platinum "Blue on Black," "Slow Ride," "Somehow, Somewhere, Someway" and a cover of Bob Dylan's "Everything is Broken."
Shepherd now has had nine of his albums hit No. 1 on Billboard's Blues Albums chart, and four that sold platinum. A dozen of his singles have hit the Top 30 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
His most recent album was last year's "Dirt on My Diamonds Vol. 2."
He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards, including two for his 2007 DVD–CD project "10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads."
Shepherd played at the event center, then called Sands Bethlehem Event Center, in 2016 as part of the supergroup The Rides, which featured rock ‘n’ roll great Stephen Stills.
