Tickets are still available for this Friday, May 27th, for Jeff Healey’s 50th birthday celebration at Massey Hall in Toronto. This show promises to be an amazing night of music with guitar heroes Albert Lee, Philip Sayce (Melissa Etheridge), Sonny Landreth, The Trews, Walter Trout, the Jeff Healey Alumni Band and some surprise guests.
Fans are encouraged to join this celebration of the life and legacy of the legendary, Canadian music icon and one of Toronto’s favourite sons – Jeff Healey.
All proceeds from this event are being donated to World Eye Cancer Hope, a charity designated by the Jeff Healey Estate that does amazing work with childhood retinoblastoma – the same cancer that took Jeff’s sight.The Jeff Healey Estate, in conjunction with Convexe Entertainment/Universal Music, released Heal My Soul in March 2016. Heal My Soul includes never heard before tracks recorded by Healey. The music on Heal My Soul captures Healey in full flight, displaying the virtuosity that made the Toronto native one of the most revered musicians in the world.
Jeff Healey is remembered as one of the most outstanding guitarists and all-around musicians of the past 30 years. Jeff lost his sight during early childhood due to retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer. Playing guitar since the age of three, he developed the distinctive lap-style guitar technique that helped bring him international attention by his late teens. A Grammy nominee and JUNO Award winner, Jeff’s five album releases with The Jeff Healey Band totalled millions of sales worldwide.
Over the course of Jeff Healey’s career, he also shared stages and earned the admiration of countless other musicians including; B.B. King, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Allman Brothers Band.
Jeff Healey died on March 2, 2008 at age 41 after a three-year battle with sarcoma cancer.
For Tickets:
Online: www.livenation.com
In Person: Roy Thomson Hall Box Office
PHONE: 1-855-985-5000
Price (Incl. HST): $29.50, $39.50, $49.50, $59.50, $99.50
Reserved Seating / All Ages
(Plus FMF and service charges)
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