Eric Clapton Announces 2023 Crossroads Guitar Festival Lineup

Eric Clapton has announced the lineup for the 2023 Crossroads Guitar Festival.

Eric Clapton announced on April 17th, the 7th installment of the Crossroads Guitar Festival (which has become well known for hosting performances and impromptu collaborations from the world’s most renowned guitar players) will take place over two nights on September 23rd and 24th at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA.

The seventh installment of his benefit concerts will include Roger McGuinn, ZZ Top, Santana, Robbie Robertson, Stephen Stills, Sheryl Crow, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Gary Clark Jr., Joe Bonamassa, Jakob Dylan, Jimmie Vaughan, and many more.

Announcing the 6th installment of Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, in aid of The Crossroads Centre Antigua will be at @cryptocomarena on September 23rd & September 24th! Clapton will gather the past, present, and future of guitar music onto 1 stage for a musical event! pic.twitter.com/SaPsvdejdm

— Eric Clapton (@EricClapton) April 17, 2023

In addition to the concerts an online auction featuring various guitars handpicked by the festival performers, among other items, will run for three weeks in October in a live auction on Oct. 21.  with all proceeds from the concert and the auction going to benefit the Crossroads Centre at Antigua, a treatment and education facility founded by Clapton for chemically dependent people.

“Crossroads is like no other treatment center,” a statement from Clapton on the center’s site. “It is the perfect place to begin the road of recovery and utilizes a combination of effective therapies to address addiction and recovery while capturing the spiritual serenity that many have found unique to Antigua. … We believe that the majority of individuals suffering from addiction have the capacity for recovery if given the proper foundation to begin their journey. At Crossroads we help provide that foundation.”