Leo Kottke to perform at UW-Stevens Point in January
9/30/2015
 


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.

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