Crossroads Guitar Festival

Crossroads Guitar Festival
Eric Clapton and Bill Murray kicking off the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2007
Genre	Blues, Country, Rock, Bluegrass
Dates	Summer
Location(s)	1999: New York City 2004: Dallas, Texas 2007, 2010: Bridgeview, Illinois 2013: New York, NY
Years active	1999, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013
Founded by	Eric Clapton
Website
http://www.crossroadsguitarfestival.org Official website (archived)

The Crossroads Guitar Festival was a series of music festivals and benefit concerts founded by Eric Clapton. The festivals benefit the Crossroads Centre founded by Eric Clapton, a drug treatment center in Antigua. The concerts showcase a variety of guitarists, selected by Eric Clapton personally. To the 2007 audience, Clapton declared that each performer was one of the very best, and had earned his personal respect.

The first concert was held on June 30, 1999, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and there again in 2013. The 2004 concert was held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, while the 2007 and 2010 festivals were held at Toyota Park, Bridgeview, Illinois, just outside Chicago.

The first Crossroads Benefit concert was held at Madison Square Garden, New York on June 30, 1999.

Some performers at the 1999 Concert were David Sanborn, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan and Mary J Blige. Backup musicians included Nathan East (bass), Steve Gadd (drums) Andy Fairweather Low (guitars), Tim Carmon (keyboards) and Dave Delhomme (keyboards).Back-up vocals by Tessa Niles & Katie Kissoon.

Unlike the DVD'S of the following editions (all titled "Crossroads guitar Festival [year]) this one has been called "Eric Clapton & Friends in concert")