As musical pedigrees go, they don\u2019t come much more awesome
\nthan being the son of legendary record man and activist John H. Hammond \u2014 the
\nsame Hammond who\u2019s credited with discovering everyone from Basie to Billie
\nHolliday, Bob Dylan to the Boss. That said, John Paul Hammond has indisputably
\nforged a name for himself as a master blues guitarist \u2014 a Grammy winning purist
\nwhose recording career of 50-plus years attests to his laserlike focus and disdain
\nof musical fad or fashion, even as he\u2019s racked up successful collaborations
\nwith the likes of Tom Waits, Dr. John, Duane Allman, Robbie Robertson, and G.
\nLove.<\/p>\n
With acoustic blues having been rediscovered \u2014 as it has Opening the show will be local living legend and\u00a0award-winning blues guitarist and songwriter Billy Hector.<\/p>\n More info: www.johnhammond.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.billyhector.com<\/a><\/p>\n Cost: $30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With a career that spans over three decades, John Hammond is one of a handful of white blues musicians who was on the scene at the beginning of the first blues renaissance of the mid-’60s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40802227926,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/New_York","_EventStartDate":"2013-04-05 20:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2013-04-05 20:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2013-04-06 00:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2013-04-06 00:00:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artseries":[],"arts":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-32212265058","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/32212265058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/32212265058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802229532,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/32212265058\/revisions\/40802229532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802227926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32212265058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32212265058"},{"taxonomy":"artseries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artseries?post=32212265058"},{"taxonomy":"arts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arts?post=32212265058"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=32212265058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbeen every so often, by a new generation of fans \u2014 Hammond stands uniquely
\npoised to \u201cshow them how it\u2019s done\u201d when he takes the stage of the Pollak
\nTheatre, a room that\u2019s been praised as a premier venue for acoustic guitarists.
\nThe Blues Hall of Famer who once boasted both Eric Clapton and<\/em> Jimi Hendrix in his band remains an artist with impeccable
\ntaste in music, his instrument, and the audience he plays to.\u00a0<\/p>\n