Blues Hero Buddy Guy Closes 2025 Experience Hendrix Tour April 12 In Atlanta

Blues icon Buddy Guy announced his retirement from the road in 2023, but not the stage. On April 12, the 88-year-old guitar legend is scheduled to close the 2025 Experience Hendrix Tour at Fox Theatre in Atlanta.

Guy is a veteran of the official multi-artist celebration of Jimi Hendrix’s music and likely the only artist on the bill who knew Hendrix personally. Hendrix, who died on Sept. 8, 1970, at 29, acknowledged Guy’s style of electrified blues guitar playing was a significant influence on his own work.

Six years his senior, Guy commented on Hendrix and the tour: “Thank you to the Hendrix Tour family for bringing me back to perform at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta on April 12. I’ll never forget meeting Jimi at that club in New York in 1968, and I’m so grateful we had the chance to become friends. It’s an honor to help keep his legacy alive.” 

Hendrix sibling Janie L. Hendrix, President and CEO of Experience Hendrix, added: “Having Buddy come out of retirement to play with us in the Atlanta show is an amazing finale. It’s a true act of friendship and mutual admiration. I can’t think of a better way to close out such an epic event. We are beyond thrilled to be able to bring this kind of energy to the stage and to our audience.”

The Experience Hendrix Tour starts on March 11 at Taft Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio, and winds its way through the Midwest with a stop at Toronto’s Massey Hall followed by the East Coast and southern states concluding in Atlanta. The tour is produced by John McDermott for Experience Hendrix LLC and Gary Buck of Reliant Talent is the agent.

Artists recently added to the lineup include David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Grammy-award winners Los Lobos (March 18, 19, 20, 21), Spin Doctors co-founder Eric Schenkman, Dweezil Zappa, drummer Tony Beard (Peter Frampton, Jeff Beck, Stephen Stills), drummer Sam Bryant (Kenny Wayne Shepherd), Buddy Guy bassist Orlando Wright and chart-topping British blues singer/guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor.

The tour features a diverse, star-studded lineup of mainstays such as Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Zakk Wylde (Pantera, Black Label Society, Ozzy Osbourne) and Eric Johnson, as well as Devon Allman (Allman Betts Family Revival), Samantha Fish and Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram. Marcus King is makes his first appearance this year.

Shepherd’s soulful and pitch-perfect guitar work has been a key part of the Experience Hendrix Tour many time since the tour started in 2004. The five-time Grammy nominee and recipient of two Billboard Music Awards commented: “This tour always offers fans a unique opportunity to see artists from multiple genres of music all honoring the great Jimi Hendrix. The diversity of the artists that take part every year only goes to show the vast reach of Jimi Hendrix’s influence.”

Other artists on the 2025 Experience Hendrix Tour are Texas blues standout Ally Venable, vocalist Noah Hunt and bassist Kevin McCormick (both of Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band), Mato Nanji (Indigenous), blues guitar prodigy Mathias Lattin, Brazilian guitarist Artur Menezes and vocalists Dylan Triplett and Henri Brown. 

2025 Experience Hendrix Tour dates:

March 11 – Cincinnati, OH, Taft Theatre

March 12 – Columbus, OH, Palace Theatre

March 13 – Greensburg, PA, Palace Theatre

March 14 – Northfield, OH, MGM Northfield Park

March 15 – Toronto, ON, Massey Hall

March 18 – Waukee, IA, Vibrant Music Halll

March 19 – Milwaukee, WI, Riverside Theater

March 20 – Indianapolis, IN, Murat Theatre

March 21 – Chicago, IL, Chicago Theatre

March 22 – Detroit, MI, Fox Theatre

March 23 – Buffalo, NY, Kleinhans Music Hall

March 25 – Syracuse, NY, Landmark Theatre

March 27 – Lynn, MA, Lynn Memorial Auditorium

March 28 – Westbury, NY, Flagstar at Westbury Music Fair

March 29 – Wallingford, CT, Toyota Oakdale Theatre 

March 30 – Wilkes-Barre, PA, F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts

April 1 – Red Bank, NJ, Count Basie Center for the Arts

April 2 – Morristown, NJ, Mayo Performing Arts Center

April 3 – Hampton Beach, NH, Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom

April 4 – Atlantic City, NJ, Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Resort

April 5 – Washington, D.C., Warner Theatre

April 6 – Durham, NC, Durham Performing Arts Center

April 8 – North Charleston, SC, North Charleston Performing Arts Center

April 9 – Charlotte, NC, Ovens Auditorium

April 10 – Knoxville, TN, Tennessee Theatre

April 11 – Greenville, SC, Peace Center Concert Hall

April 12 – Atlanta, GA, Fox Theatre