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Eric Clapton announces his Crossroads Festival 2010 to take place in Chicago!


The Allman Brothers Band, ZZ Top, Steve Winwood, B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Buddy Guy and John Mayer are among the artists guitar legend Eric Clapton [ tickets ] has enlisted to share the stage with him during the 2010 edition of his Croassroads Guitar Festival.

Scheduled to take place June 26, at Bridgeview, IL's Toyota Park, the event will also feature Robert Cray, Keb' Mo', Robert Randolph, Jimmie Vaughn, Doyle Bramhall II and more. A complete list of confirmed performers is included below.

"The Crossroads Festival is the realization of a dream for me, to gather a group of amazingly talented musicians to perform on one stage,” said Clapton. “The Crossroads performers are all musicians I admire and respect."

Tickets for the event--which are priced at at $100, plus parking and applicable fees, according to the Croassroad Guitar Festival's website--go on sale Feb. 20 via Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster phone charge (800.745.3000), Ticketmaster retail outlets, and the Toyota Park box office.

Proceeds from the Croassroads Guitar Festival 2010 will benefit Clapton's Croassroads Centre, a substance-abuse rehab facility in Antigua that Clapton founded in 1998. More information about the organization is available at the Crossroads Centre's website.

In related news, Clapton is gearing up for a handful of co-headlining performances with Beck that get underway with a two-night stand in London this weekend, after which he'll tackle a stretch of February and March solo concerts throughout the US. Details are shown at right.

Artists confirmed for the Crossroads Guitar Festival [ tickets ]:

Albert Lee
Allman Brothers Band
BB King
Bert Jansch
Buddy Guy
David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos
Doyle Bramhall II
Earl Klugh
Eric Clapton
Gary Clark Jr.
Hubert Sumlin
James Burton
Jeff Beck
Jimmie Vaughan
Joao Gilberto
Joe Bonamassa
John Mayer
John Renbourn
Keb Mo
Pino Daniele
Robert Cray
Robert Randolph
Sheryl Crow
Sonny Landreth
Steve Winwood
Vince Gill
ZZ Top

With all due respect to Andrew, this lineup blows away mrfest. Good lord, look at these players. Hall of famers. All he needs is Kenny Wayne Shepard and Nils Lofgren and BB King, and he would have the perfect festival.. I would pay to see this instead of Rock Sugar or fuckin Bombaby Black and especially Winger. Surprised Schon isn't in it or Keith Scott at least.

Rockindeano wrote:With all due respect to Andrew, this lineup blows away mrfest. Good lord, look at these players. Hall of famers. All he needs is Kenny Wayne Shepard and Nils Lofgren and BB King, and he would have the perfect festival.. I would pay to see this instead of Rock Sugar or fuckin Bombaby Black and especially Winger. Surprised Schon isn't in it or Keith Scott at least.

Having seen videos of the other Crossroads festivals, I always promised myself that if it ever came back to the midwest I would definitely go. I am so there!

I can see Bombay Black rolling up to the gig with backpacks and on bikes...ten speeds with the handle bars flipped up and their hippy hair flying out of their stoner beanies. Just like guys at college I used to see daily. These shmucks would ramble through campus on their hippie ten speeds, just as I described, hauling ass on the sidewalks where the other 17,100 students walked. You are supposed to walk your sled, but the unbathed hippies toke up some hippie lettuce over in Todd Hall after English class, and then pedal there tenners, handle bars up of course viloently picking their way through the maze of students. This one guy, I kid you not, was moving like an express train down Stadium Way and he just took out this poor small cute little Asian girl. Her shit went flying all over the road; notebooks, papers, books, backpack, herself!, everything.! I thought she was dead. Hippie stopped, helped her up and asked if she was ok and then proceeded to reattain full bike speed on said sidewalk. The incident made the paper, the Evergreen. The pictures were exactly how St John depicts hippies: long braided lettuce, some George Clinton shirt with beadery around the neck, torn jeans and open toed sandals. He had the stoner bike complete with the upside down handle bars and taped up seat. It was classic.

This is just fucking awsome. Now I need to figure out how to do this.

I hear this one's being billed as the 'Cure for Insomnia' Tour.....

Not as strong of a lineup as the past years but still really good. I have the 2004 or 2005 (cant remember) DVD and it's KILLER!

StocktontoMalone wrote:I hear this one's being billed as the 'Cure for Insomnia' Tour.....

I usually disagree with you. Not this time though pal, not this time..... Just TYPING Eric Clapton makes me sleepy

Behshad wrote:

StocktontoMalone wrote:I hear this one's being billed as the 'Cure for Insomnia' Tour.....

I usually disagree with you. Not this time though pal, not this time..... Just TYPING Eric Clapton makes me sleepy

I would only go for the following:
BB King
Jeff Beck
Joe Bonamassa
Keb Mo
Robert Cray
ZZ Top