Chris Cain - 8/17 - SOLD OUT!
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About this event
One of 148 upcoming events at CNY Arts, and 210 across Syracuse.
THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT. FOLLOW THE TICKET LINK TO JOIN THE WAITLIST ON EVENTBRITE. Our August 18 show with CHRIS CAIN sold out in less than a week, so we’ve added a second show on August 17. Chris Cain was born in San Jose, California in 1955. His parents were huge music fans and shared their love of blues, jazz and popular songs with Chris. His African American father and Greek mother had a huge, shared record collection, which fascinated Chris from an early age. Chris was three years old when his father first took him to see B.B. King. His father gave him his first guitar at age eight and Chris learned lick after lick, song after song. He’d listen to his father’s records over and over until the music had seeped into his soul. Cain formed his first band in 1986, and, in hopes of getting more gigs, released his first album, Late Night City Blues, on the locally-based Blue Rock’It label. Almost immediately, everything changed. Booking agents came calling and Chris began touring Europe. The album received four W.C. Handy Award nominations (now the Blues Music Awards) and the offers to perform kept rolling in.