Blues Singer, Guitarist Eric Bibb At Chandler Music Hall April 28

Blues artist Eric Bibb in performance.

Blues singer and guitarist Eric Bibb will bring his "grace, elegance and gentleness," to the concert stage of Chandler Music Hall in Randolph Saturday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m.

Known as "the troubadour with a soulful smooth delivery and versatile finger-picking style," Bibb stole the show at last year’s Rockin’ Blues Revue at the Flynn Center in Burlington and is becoming increasingly well known to the U.S. acoustic folk/blues scene. His rich and sensitive vocals and lyrics provide a perfect balance to his fine finger picking technique.

Bibb is a native New Yorker with deep roots in American Blues and Folk traditions. He was raised in an environment where music mattered greatly. He is the son of 1960s folk and musical theater singer and television legend, Leon Bibb. His uncle was world-famous jazz pianist-composer, John Lewis, and singer-actor-activist Paul Robeson was his godfather.

Bibb got his first guitar at the age of seven. At age 16, his father invited him to play guitar in the house band for his television show, Someone New. At 19, he left for Paris, making his way playing in restaurants. He then headed to Sweden, settling there in the 1970s. A breakout performance at the London Blues Festival thrust him into the front ranks among blues and songwriting circles in Europe, where he has lived for most of his adult life. In recent years he has been touring in this country, and is equally at home at jazz festivals, world music festivals and folk festivals.

He joined the Telarc label in 2004. His latest recording, "Diamond Days," was released in January of 2007.

Reserved seat tickets can be ordered by calling the Chandler Box Office at 728-6464 or tickets@chandler-arts.org. The performance is presented by Chandler Center for the Arts and sponsored by Sytsma Design Group and The Point.

Before the show and during intermission visit the Chandler Gallery for the Annual Local Artists’ Show, "Impressions of Vermont." Using many different media, Central Vermont artists present two and three-dimensional work depicting their creative impressions of Vermont.

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