Buddy Guy Honored by Kennedy Center for Life’s Work, Broadcast Wednesday

The legendary bluesman and Southland resident was recently recognized for his immense, and continued, influence and contribution to American music throughout his lifetime. Catch the broadcast Wednesday at 8 p.m. on CBS.

  Update The 2012 Kennedy Center Honors, which include acknowledgement of bluesman Buddy Guy, will be broadcast 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 26 on CBS. Original Post Buddy Guy didn’t have running water or electricity while growing up in rural Louisiana. The 76-year-old first played a guitar around age 14. He used to try making guitar strings out of screen wire, but the flimsy strands would break when he pressed his fingers on them. “But I had to figure it out for myself, man,” Guy said, in an Aol interview, about his desire to play blues. “The first thing I ever figured out was John Lee Hooker’s ‘Boogie Chillen.’ Wore the needle out on it. Took a straw and put in my teeth and put it down on the record. It would skip but I could still hear that …

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Buddy Guy, A Capella Rock and a Guitar Extravaganza Headline This Weekend

Patch spotlights events in Chicago, Chicago Heights, Joliet, Mokena, New Lenox, Oak Forest, Oak Lawn, Orland Park, Palos Hills, Park Forest and University Park.

Saint Xavier University’s Department of Music presents the Guitar Ensemble and Jazz Combo Spring Concert, featuring works by 15th-century composer Pierre Attaignant, 18th-century composer Leonard de Call, 20th-century music legend George Gershwin, contemporary composer-musician Herbie Hancock and many others. When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 25  Where: Saint Xavier University Warde Academic Center, 3700 W. 103rd St. Cost: $6, $5 seniors and students. Information: 773-298-3421 and www.adamus@sxu.edu  Union Street Gallery continues its national juried exhibit, Word and Numbers. When: Show runs through April 2. Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, noon-6 p.m. Friday, and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.  Where: Union Street Gallery, 1527 …

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Paul Dailing

11:07 am on Tuesday, March 29, 2011

You can post all those events in our daily events calendar, too. For Jenny's, the best link would probably be here: http://frankfort.patch.com/search/events   more ›