Biggest Blues Rock Party on the Beach takes place in Wantagh, NY

Blues rock titan Joe Bonamassa will be joined by Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening for Keeping the Blues Alive Presents: Joe Bonamassa & Friends. The biggest blues rock party on the beach takes place August 19th at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY with tickets available now via Ticketmaster.

This extraordinary evening will feature full sets from each act, before culminating into an exciting, unprecedented end-of-the-evening collaboration set. Ticket holders will experience some of the best blues rock music and guitar mastery on the scene today at one of the most iconic amphitheaters in America.

Bonamassa has almost single-handedly redefined the blues-rock genre and brought it into the mainstream. He will perform his songs from his 25th No. 1 Billboard blues album Time Clocks, alongside career-spanning fan favorites with his incredible all-star band.

Bonamassa runs the non-profit Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation, whose mission is to promote and sustain music education and blues music by funding scholarships and providing music education resources to schools in need. To date, the non-profit has funded schools and teachers with over $1 million and has positively impacted 70,000 students all across the country.

Since COVID-19 has changed the ways of the world, Bonamassa has been working hard to raise money for musicians affected by the crisis, by creating the Fueling Musicians program. The initiative is an emergency relief plan designed to support musicians by providing immediate cash payments for essential living expenses of $1,500 to help them stay afloat and get back on the road again when it is safe. To date, they’ve raised over $475,000 and distributed money to over 300 artists. Fueling Musicians has been honored with the illustrious “Keeping The Blues Alive” award from the Blues Foundation.

In a 20-year recording career, Shepherd has established himself as an immensely popular recording artist, a consistently in-demand live act and an influential force in a worldwide resurgence of interest in the blues. At 16 years old, he burst onto the national scene with the release of his debut RIAA Platinum-certified album Ledbetter Heights, and his RIAA Platinum-certified sophomore effort Trouble Is… Bonamassa and Shepherd grew up as kids at the same time as guitar prodigies, and they are still great friends today.

At the age of 17, Bonham’s group Air Race opened for the likes of Queen, Meat Loaf, Ted Nugent and AC/DC. His father, legendary drummer for Led Zeppelin, John Bonham died in 1980, with Jason stepping in from time to time to help keep his father’s memory alive. Jason teamed up with greats like Paul Rodgers, Slash, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck and more, earning a GRAMMY nomination in 1993 for Muddy Waters Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters. Bonham and Bonamassa were in a band together called Black Country Communion with “Voice Of Rock” Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Trapeze) and Derek Sherinian (Dream Theatre) which is currently on hiatus due to all the band members solo careers.