Grammy
Award-nominated blues guitarist Leo Kottke will perform at the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point in January 2016.
The concert
will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, at Sentry Insurance’s
Theatre@1800. Reserved seat tickets go on sale Thursday, Oct. 1, for $35 plus
service fees. Tickets may be purchased at University Information and Tickets in
the Dreyfus University Center concourse, by calling 800-838-3378 or at http://tickets.uwsp.edu.
A
native of Athens, Ga., Kottke grew up across 12 states, absorbing a variety of
musical influences and giving up the violin and trombone for a guitar at age
11. After serving in the Navy, he became a fixture at Minneapolis’ Scholar
Coffeehouse, home to Bob Dylan and John Koerner. He released his first blues
album in 1968 and made his major-label debut in 1971 with “Mudlark.”
In the
early 70s he recorded several albums with Capitol Records, including “Chewing
Pine,” which reached the U.S. top 30. He has won two Grammy Award nominations
and earned a doctorate in music performance at the Peck School of the Arts at
UW-Milwaukee.
Folk-rock
singer and songwriter Steve Forbert will open the show. His single, “Romeo’s
Tune,” hit number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980.