Crossroads Guitar Festival

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Eric Clapton (left) and Bill Murray, Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007

The Crossroads Guitar Festival is a music festival and benefit concert that has been held every three years since 2004 (with the exception of 2016). Proceeds from the festivals will go to the Crossroads Center , a drug therapy center in Antigua founded in the 1990s by Eric Clapton and Richard Conte. Clapton is also the organizer of the Crossroads Guitar Festival.

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004

The first Crossroads Guitar Festival took place June 4-6, 2004 at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas , Texas . A double DVD with 250 minutes of concert recording was released in the same year, but did not show all of the artists who performed.

Artist

Artists not featured on the double DVD include Jeff Beck , Pat Metheny , Neal Schon and Styx .

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007

The 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival was held on July 28th at Toyota Park in Bridgeview , Illinois . The 28,000 tickets are said to have sold out within 22 minutes. In the same year a concert recording was released on a double DVD.

Artist

Performed on the main stage (in order of appearance):

On the second stage in the Festival Village:

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010

The Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 took place again on June 26th in Toyota Park .

Artist

Bill Murray led the program. The order of the appearances was:

Track list

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013

The 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival took place on April 12th and 13th at Madison Square Garden in New York . Concert recordings are available on DVD, CD, LP and Blu-ray.

Artist

On the two days of the festival the following took place:

Track list

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019

The 2019 Crossroads Guitar Festival took place on September 20-21 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas . Bill Murray led the program.

Artist

On the two days of the festival the following took place:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Eric Clapton / Guitar Festival Crossroads 2013 on Rocktimes.de, November 19, 2013
  2. List of performances in 2004 on Setlist.com
  3. List of performances in 2007 on Setlist.com
  4. List of performances in 2010 on Setlist.com
  5. Erin Coulehan: Eric Clapton Readies 'Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013' for Release . Rolling Stone, October 3, 2013 (English)
  6. List of performances in 2013 on Setlist.com
  7. Clapton - "Every Day I Have The Blues" - (Crossroads 2013) [Official Video]. Retrieved January 5, 2019 .
  8. List of performances in 2019 on Setlist.com