BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:217283@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260831T111513Z DTSTART:20260925T200000Z DTEND:20260925T200000Z SUMMARY:ANTHONY GOMES DESCRIPTION:With a guitar slung over his shoulder and the amps turned up full tilt\\, Anthony Gomes electrifies blues and rock at a 21st century c rossroads of his own. The Canadian vocalist\\, guitarist\\, songwriter an d producer wails with all the force of a hurricane in the Mississippi Del ta and enough fret-burning fireworks to leave his strings in flames. Over the years\\, he’\\;s toppled the Billboard Blues Chart at #1\\, ear ned the endorsement of legends such as B.B. King\\, tallied tens of milli ons of streams\\, and packed shows on multiple continents. In April 2025\ \, Anthony Gomes is back with his much-anticipated 14th studio album\\, P raise the Loud\\, set for release on Rat Pak Records.\\n“\\;I’\ \;ve learned how to embrace my voice as a guitarist and as a singer\\, 221\\; he states. “\\;I understand who I am\\, and I use my strength s to my advantage. I have a blues soul and a rock ‘\\;n’\\; rol l heart. I love to jump back and forth between both with a modern-day app roach. When I play rock\\, it’\\;s got a little more dust on it.R 21\\;\\nBorn and raised in Toronto\\, Ontario\\, he fell in love with mus ic as a kid\\, listening to everyone from Muddy Waters and Jimi Hendrix t o Jeff Beck and Eddie Van Halen. At 14 years old\\, Anthony gravitated to the guitar and his relationship with the instrument was born. After grin ding it out\\, his chops caught the attention of B.B. King’\\;s bus driver at a jam night. Blown away\\, the driver introduced him to B.B. wh o invited him to open up a string of tour dates in 2005. Gaining invaluab le knowledge from “\\;The King\\,”\\; he went on to share the s tage with the likes of Buddy Guy\\, Robert Plant\\, Joe Bonamassa\\, Hear t\\, Sammy Hagar\\, Kenny Wayne Shepherd\\, and more. Along the way\\, hi s concert attendees have included Academy® Award winner Morgan Freeman\\ , John Goodman\\, and Vince Vaughn as well as Eric Clapton\\, to name a f ew.\\n \\n2022’\\;s High Voltage Blues vaulted to #1 on the iTunes Top Blues Albums Chart\\, #1 on Amazon Music’\\;s New Release Blues Chart and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues chart. It remained on the Billboard Blues chart for 58 consecutive weeks\\, landing on ‘\\;Bil lboard’\\;s Top 15 Blues Albums of the Year’\\; for both 2023 a nd 2024.\\nMeanwhile\\, Total Guitar listed Gomes as ‘\\;One of the 100 Greatest Blues Guitarists of All Time’\\; in 2024. Guitar World readers voted him one of “\\;The 30 Best Blues Guitarists in the Wor ld Today”\\; in 2019\\, and the publication noted\\, “\\;Gomes is another power player who is at his best when his gear is in the scorch ed earth between blues and rock.”\\;\\n \\nDoors open 6:30pm\\nhttp s://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/buffalo/events/anthony-gomes- 2026-09-25 LOCATION:visitbuffalo.com URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/buffalo/events/anthony-gomes-2026-09-25 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR