Elvis Costello, Billy F. Gibbons, and All-Star Friends Benefit Concert

Elvis Costello, Billy F. Gibbons, and All-Star Friends Benefit Concert

To raise funds to help uninsured professional musicians with care for upper limb injuries the Musician Treatment Foundation (MTF) is honored to present an all star benefit concert featuring music legends Elvis Costello, Billy F Gibbons, and Jerry Douglas as well as Keith Carlock, Bill Evans, Darryl Jones, Mike Seal, Charlie Sexton, and The Imposters.

MTF assists eligible Nashville musicians at home and on the road in dozens of cities across the United States, including Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.  Learn more at mtfusa.org.

Elvis Costello is an award-winning musician with a career spanning over 40 years as well as an artist and author.  He has been prolific as a solo artist and collaborator with album sales over 5.5 million and counting.  Costello is one of the founding directors of the Musician Treatment Foundation donating his artistry, collaboration, and many talents in support of the organization. On December 2, 2022 he supported MTF with an unbelievable benefit at ACL Live:  Elvis Costello & Friends:  King of America & Other Realms, performing with Rosanne Cash, Nina Diaz, Sara Jarosz, Valerie June, John Leventhal, La Marisoul, Allan Mayes, Charlie Sexton, and two of The Imposters Davey Faragher and Pete Thomas.  Costello, alongside The Attractions, was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and awarded ASCAP’s prestigious Founder’s Award. The Boy Named If, his album with The Imposters, is nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 2022.  Costello’s latest album The Songs of Bacharach & Costello is set for release on March 3, 2023.

ZZ Top guitarist Billy F Gibbons is unquestionably one of the finest blues-rock guitarists to ever emerge from Texas. He began his career in the Moving Sidewalks band, which recorded a full-length album entitled Flash in 1968 and opened for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969 and released ZZ Top’s First Album in early 1971. He has also maintained a solo career in recent years, starting with his first album Perfectamundo (2015).  Gibbons possesses a gravelly bass-baritone singing voice and is known for his bluesy, groove-based guitar style.  In 2001, Rolling Stone named him the 32nd greatest guitarist of all time.  With combined record sales of over 50 million, Gibbons is still going strong with his third solo album Hardware released in June 2022.

Source: Brooklyn Bowl