Joe Bonamassa will return to Lincoln in August. This time, the blues-rock guitarist and his big band hope to play Pinewood Bowl.
That’s where they were scheduled to perform in August 2017. But a severe storm the night before Bonamassa was to play the Pioneers Park amphitheater made it impossible to hold the show there. So Bonamassa and band delivered a very classy show at Pinnacle Bank Arena.
Bonamassa’s Aug. 9 show will be the next-to-last stop on his summer tour that begins July 22 at Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium. The tour’s final stop will be a two-night engagement at Red Rocks near Denver. He’s also slated to play the Bethel Woods Center in New York, the original Woodstock site on one of the two festivals competing to celebrate Woodstock’s 50th anniversary.
Bonamassa will be touring in support of “Redemption,†the album he released in September. That album became his 21st No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Chart. Bonamassa has released more than 30 albums, including collaboration and side projects.
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He’ll be accompanied on the summer tour by an all-star band that includes Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Reese Wynans, who played with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, on piano and organ, David Letterman show drummer Anton Fig, and Nashville recording legend Michael Rhodes on bass.
Tickets for Bonamassa’s Pinewood Bowl show go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Tickets are $92 to $152 and will be available at the Pinnacle Bank Arena ticket office, and by phone at 800-745-3000.
The Bonamassa show is the seventh concert announced for Pinewood Bowl this summer. The others are: The Avett Brothers, May 17; Kidz Bop, June 16; Jon Bellion, July 24; Tenacious D, July 28; “Weird Al†Yankovic, July 31; and Judah & The Lion, Aug. 14. The Nebraska Folk & Roots Festival will take place at Pinewood on June 15. Its lineup has not yet been announced.
Ten to 15 shows are expected to be booked at Pinewood Bowl from May through September.