Legendary bluesman Buddy Guy — who starred in Ryan Coogler’s Oscar-winning film “Sinners” and was honored at Variety’s Hitmakers event last year — will receive what may be his greatest honor to date on Oct. 1 at New York’s Radio City Music Hall: “Buddy’s Got the Blues: A 90th Birthday Concert Celebration,” with a lineup that truly befits his status: Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks, Jon Batiste, Aloe Blacc, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Clark Jr., Shemekia Copeland, Robert Cray, Samantha Fish, Eric Gales, Billy F Gibbons, Ivan Neville, Robert Randolph, Bobby Rush, Isaiah Sharkey, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jimmie Vaughan, Ally Venable, Willie Weeks, Kim Wilson, and of course the man himself, with more artists and special guests to be announced. 

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 26, at 10 AM ET.

Steve Jordan will serve as the evening’s musical director; executive producers are Keith Wortman, Garry Buck, and Scooter Weintraub. The show is produced by Blackbird Presents and Live Nation.  

Guys said in a statement: “Can’t wait to celebrate 90 years of living, loving, and playing the Blues with all my friends. We’ll make it a night not just for me, but for the folks who taught us, the friends we’ve played with, and the ones coming up behind us.”

A member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a pioneer of Chicago’s West Side sound, Guy was cited as a key influence by Clapton, Keith Richards, Peter Green and virtually every guitarist to arise from the British blues-rock boom of the mid-1960s and beyond. He has won nine Grammy Awards — including one for his latest album, 2025’s “Ain’t Done With the Blues” — as well as a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, 38 Blues Music Awards, the Presidential National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honor.