SunTrust Concert in the Gardens

About the Event

Picnic Under The Stars - With a pinch of romance and a dash of gourmet you can pre-pick and choose from our summer concert fare menu. We’re featuring everything from simple, delicious appetizers and freshly made sandwiches to seasonal pasta dishes and sinfully delicious desserts.

2008 Line Up

Buddy Guy
Friday, May 30th at 8 p.m.

Buddy Guy (born George Guy, July 30, 1936 in Lettsworth, Louisiana) is an American blues music and rock music guitarist, as well as a singer. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix and other 1960s blues and rock legends, Guy is considered as an important exponent of Chicago blues made famous by Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He has influenced both widely known and local blues guitarists — for more.

Shawn Colvin
Friday, June 20th at 8 p.m.

Shared experiences and common epiphanies run through the songs of Grammy winner Shawn Colvin. “It’s great to feel like I’m doing my best work now,” she notes, a singer-songwriter who grew up alongside of her audience, many of whom tell her how much they relate to what’s happening in her songs. Colvin maintains a delicate balance between confidence and vulnerability, performed from the vantage point of someone who’s had a chance to glance back somewhat ruefully at where she’s been. — for more.

John Hiatt and the Ageless Beautie
Friday, July 11th at 8 p.m.

On May 27, New West Records will release John Hiatt’s new full length album Same Old Man, his first album since 2005’s critically acclaimed Master of Disaster, of which The Washington Post declared “Hiatt has written some of the best melodies of his career,” and Time Out New York proclaimed “.his most vibrant and soulful album in years.” Same Old Man will also be available as a Limited Edition 180 gram vinyl record — for more.

Jerry Jeff Walker
Sunday, July 18th at 8 p.m.

There's a photo on the back of a long-out-of-print Jerry Jeff Walker album that kind of sums it all up. In the picture, Jerry Jeff is outside an old roadhouse on a lonesome highway. It's night, and his collar is turned up against the chill breeze as he hunches over to light a cigarette. His guitar is slung around his back. It's hard to tell if he's entering or leaving the roadhouse, but either way you figure he's got many miles to go before he sleeps — for more.

Lucinda Williams
Friday, July 25th at 8 p.m.

Four-time Grammy-winner Lucinda Williams was dubbed “America’s Best Songwriter,” by Time magazine, and most recently “Come On” snagged the Grammy for Best Rock Song this February. Williams’ unflagging and openhearted singing lends a timeless feel to her music — for more.

K.T. Tunstall
Friday, August 1st at 8 p.m.

"The last three years have changed me as an artist," says KT Tunstall. "My bar has been raised. I've realized what's possible through making an album, touring behind it with a band, seeing how that album can turn into something else on stage, and how we can actually make it better." Choosing between an album and a concert? Choose the gig advises Tunstall — for more.

For complete information regarding the Concerts in the Garden series, please visit the SunTrust Concerts in the Garden website.