Tab Benoit: Soul of the Swamp
THE HANGAR PRESENTS
TAB BENOIT:
SOUL OF THE SWAMP
with support from ZAC SCHULZE GANG
Official tickets for this event are only available through Tixr.
Support Acts are always subject to change.
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Parking Information:
If you're going to drive, get here early. Leaving your car overnight in our lot is ok with us. Please consider riding your bikes and or using ride share.
If our lot is full you can find additional parking at these locations, which we have rented for the day :
- 971 & 981 Silver Dollar Ave (behind the Shell station), 80 parking spaces
- Realty World Lake Tahoe , 949 Tahoe Keys Blvd, 20 parking spaces.
Tab Benoit is a 4x Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and guitarist who has built a remarkable 30+ year career on the foundation of his gritty and soulful Delta swamp blues, acquiring a devoted legion of fans along the way, as well as 5 Blues Music Awards, including BB King Entertainer of the Year (twice) and an induction into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
After a 13 - year hiatus, Tab is back with his latest effort, I Hear Thunder , on his own label, Whiskey Bayou Records . The new album was his first #1 in the Billboard charts in over 30 years. Read more about it in Billboard here.. Benoit's 2013 release, Medi cine , was co - produced with Anders Osborne for Concord International, and garnered three Blues Music Awards. Following this notable success, Benoit took a step away from music, taking a 13 - year sabbatical from recording and entering a period of creative exi le.
Tab's accomplishments as a musician are matched only by his devotion to the environmental health of his native Louisiana wetlands. The notoriety achieved by his success provided him with a mouthpiece to promote his growing concern for the Louisiana Wetlands and coastal erosion from the region he calls home. Benoit is the founder and driving force behind Voice of the Wetlands, an organization working to preserve the coastal waters of his home state. In 2010, he received the Governor's Award for Conser vationist of the Year from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation. Benoit has also starred in the iMax motion picture Hurricane on the Bayou , a documentary of Hurricane Katrina's effects and a call to protect and restore the Wetlands.
Benoit has recorded and /or performed with Junior Wells, George Porter Jr, Dr. John, Willie Nelson, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Billy Joe Shaver, Maria Muldaur, James Cotton, Cyril Neville, Kenny Aronoff, Allen Toussaint, Kim Wilson, Jimmy Thackery, Charlie Musslewhite, Kenny Neal, Chris Layton, Ivan Neville, Jimmy Hall, Jim Lauderdale, Anders Osborne, and Alvin Youngblood Hart to name a few.