Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival Returns To Dallas

Charles Sykes/Invision/AP – Eric Clapton
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Eric Clapton is bringing back the Crossroads Guitar Festival, the fifth installment and first since 2013, to Dallas – the city that hosted the first Crossroads in 2004.

Clapton will perform two shows at Crossroads, Sept. 20-21 at the American Airlines Center, with performances from guitar gods and goddesses including Jeff Beck, Bonnie Raitt, Gary Clark Jr., Keb Mo, Buddy Guy, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh, Sheryl Crow, Robert Cray, Albert Lee, and many more.

Crossroads is renowned for its lineups of top guitar slingers and impromptu collaborations from legendary and current greats. All profits from the festival will benefit The Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment and education facility founded by Clapton for chemically dependent persons.

Tickets for the Crossroads Guitar Festival may be purchased by Citi cardmembers via presale beginning April 2 at 10 a.m. CT through April 3 at 10 p.m. CT at Citi’s website. General public onsale begins April 5 at 10 am CT through Ticketmaster.

The first Crossroads Guitar Festival, in June 2004 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, was an unprecedented collection of guitar icons from blues, rock and contemporary music. The sold-out show was chronicled in a 2-disc DVD that has since gone on to become one of the world’s top-selling music DVD’s.

The Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 and 2010 were the second and third such concerts by Clapton and were staged at Toyota Park in Chicago. Both Festivals were filmed for DVDs and met similar acclaim and achieved multi-platinum status. The fourth Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2013 brought the world’s best guitar players to the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden in New York and met with huge critical acclaim.

In addition to the concerts, the Guitar Center Festival Village will be featured on Victory Plaza adjacent to the arena. Some of the world’s best guitar and gear manufacturers, including Ernie Ball, Fender, Gibson, Martin, PRS, and more, will host interactive exhibits where guitar enthusiasts can plug in and play new products and classic favorites.

In addition, Guitar Center Festival Village Stage Presented by Ernie Ball will host master guitar clinics and solo performances by main stage artists, next generation guitar virtuosos, and special surprise guests. The Guitar Center Festival Village will be open from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. each day and is free to all ticket holders.

More information, including how to make separate donations to the Crossroads Centre can be found at Eric Clapton’s website and that of Crossroads Guitar Festival.

CURRENT CROSSROADS FESTIVAL ARTIST LISTING
(Note: Two Different Nights of Music. Not All Artists Will Perform Both Nights but Eric Clapton Will Perform Both Nights.)

Alan Darby
Albert Lee
Andy Fairweather Low
Billy Gibbons
Bonnie Raitt
Bradley Walker
Buddy Guy Band
Daniel Santiago
Derek Trucks
Doyle Bramhall II
Eric Clapton
Gary Clark Jr.
Gustavo Santaolalla
James Bay
Jeff Beck
Jerry Douglas
Jimmie Vaughan
Joe Walsh
Jonny Lang
Keb Mo
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Los Lobos
Pedro Martins
Peter Frampton
Robert Cray
Robert Randolph
Sheryl Crow
Sonny Landreth
Susan Tedeschi
Tom Misch
Vince Gill