Tickets for the newly-announced tour of Boz Scaggs will go on sale to the public on Friday, March 3, 2023 at 10:00am. The one-night-only concert is in Washington, D.C. at The National Theatre on Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 8:00pm.
Tickets will be available online at BroadwayAtTheNational.com or in person at The National Theatre box office located at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20004. Box Office hours are Monday through Friday 12:00-6:00pm with extended evening and weekend hours during performance days. Ticket prices start at $60 with limited VIP packages available for purchase. Orders for groups of 10 or more may be placed by contacting our group sales department at [email protected].
Ticket buyers are reminded that Broadway at The National and Ticketmaster are the only official retail ticket outlets for all performances at The National Theatre. Ticket buyers who purchase tickets from a ticket broker or any third party should be aware that The National Theatre is unable to reprint or replace lost or stolen tickets and is unable to contact patrons with information regarding time changes or other pertinent updates regarding the performance.
ABOUT BOZ SCAGGS
It’s appropriate that Boz Scaggs’ new album is Out of the Blues, since the blues is what first sparked his five-decade musical career.
Born William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio on June 8, 1944, he grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, where he spent his teenage years immersed in the blues, R&B and early rock ‘n’ roll. While attending school in Dallas, he played in local combos. After several years as a journeyman musician around Madison, WI and Austin, TX, Scaggs spent time traveling in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, eventually settling in Stockholm where he recorded the album Boz.
Returning to the U.S. in 1967, Scaggs joined the Steve Miller Band in San Francisco, performing on that group’s albums Children of the Future and Sailor, before launching his solo career with 1968’s seminal Boz Scaggs LP, recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL for Atlantic Records. Scaggs continued to mine a personalized mix of rock, blues and R&B influences, along with a signature style of ballads on such influential ’70s albums as Moments, Boz Scaggs & Band, My Time, Slow Dancer and 1976’s Silk Degrees. The latter release became a massive commercial breakthrough, reaching Number Two and remaining on the album charts for 115 weeks. It spawned three Top 40 hit singles: “It’s Over,” “Lido Shuffle” and the Grammy-winning “Lowdown.” Subsequently, “We’re All Alone” from that same album, would become a #1 single for Rita Coolidge. Silk Degrees was followed by the albums Down Two Then Left and Middle Man, and such hit singles as “Breakdown Dead Ahead,” “Jo Jo” and “Look What You’ve Done to Me.”
Despite his ’70s successes, Scaggs spent much of the 1980s out of the music-biz spotlight, traveling, opening a family business, fathering young children and founding the San Francisco nightclub, Slim’s, He returned to the studio after an 8-year hiatus and released, Other Roads, Some Change, Dig, the Grammy-nominated Come on Home, the unplugged Fade Into Light, the in-concert retrospective Greatest Hits Live as well as a stint touring with Donald Fagen’s New York Rock & Soul Review; all while continuing to maintain a loyal audience in the U.S. and overseas, particularly in Japan. A pair of albums of jazz standards, But Beautiful and Speak Low, the latter topping the Billboard Jazz chart, demonstrated Scaggs’ stylistic mastery, as did the Southern-flavored Memphis and the rhythm & bluesy A Fool to Care.
“Music has been a constant companion and I’m feeling more free with it than ever,” Scaggs comments. “I feel like I’ve found my voice through all these years, and I’ve gotten closer to where I want to be with my approach.”
CALENDAR INFORMATION
Boz Scaggs will play The National Theatre for one night only.
- Saturday, May 13, 2023, 8:00pm
Please visit https://www.broadwayatthenational.com/show/boz-scaggs/ to learn more.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
LOCATION
The National Theatre is located at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in downtown Washington, D.C. Nearby metro stops include Metro Center and Federal Triangle. For parking information and further directions, please visit BroadwayAtTheNational.com.
GROUPS OF 10+
Groups of 10 or more can be placed by emailing [email protected]. To learn more about group benefits, visit BroadwayAtTheNational.com.
TICKETING DISCLAIMER
Dates are subject to change. Ticket prices do not include a service charge and per ticket facility fee. For the most up-to-date information on The National Theatre’s health and safety policies, please visit BroadwayAtTheNational.com/health-and-safety
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