Jazz & Blues

Grammy-winning artists Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang are set to take the stage Monday April 12th at the Burton Cummings Theatre.

Guy, a blues legend, has won five Grammy Awards, 23 W.C. Handy Blues Awards along with the Presidential National Medal of Arts. He released his first album in 1965 and has influenced many notable musicians including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

And he's still cranking.

Although only 28 years old, blues musician Jonny Lang can be considered a veteran of the blues, having released his first album at age 15.

"I haven't known any other way," Lang said of his career.

When Lang was 11, he saw his first live blues performance in Fargo, N.D., by the "Bad Medicine Blues Band" and knew right then he wanted to create blues music.

After Lang began taking lessons with the band's guitarist, the group re-created themselves as Kid Jonny Lang and the Big Band with Lang in the lead.

Since then, his musical career has spanned 15 years and included five albums.

His latest gospel-inspired album "Turn Around," released in 2006, earned him a Grammy.

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