Metro Council and The Portland'5 Centers for the Arts Department of Culture and Community are launching the Community and Cultural Arts Grant. This grant program will provide...
Boz Scaggs - Cancelled
Out of an abundance of caution and by state mandate, the Boz Scaggs concert scheduled on June 2nd, 2020 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall will not be rescheduled and has been canceled.
Orders paid with a credit card will be automatically refunded to that card. Please allow 14-20 days for the refund to post to your account. The box office will reach out to those who paid with cash or a gift card.
VIP TICKET PACKAGES
Boz Scaggs - Front Row Package
- One front row ticket
- Collectible tour lithograph autographed by Boz Scaggs (limited print)
- Specially designed Boz Scaggs embroidered hat
- Boz Scaggs canvas tote bag
- Exclusive Boz Scaggs VIP merchandise item
- Commemorative tour laminate
- Commemorative ticket
- Limited availability
Boz Scaggs - VIP Tour Package
- One premium reserved ticket located in rows 2-12
- Collectible tour lithograph autographed by Boz Scaggs (limited print)
- Specially designed Boz Scaggs embroidered hat
- Boz Scaggs canvas tote bag
- Exclusive Boz Scaggs VIP merchandise item
- Commemorative tour laminate
- Commemorative ticket
- Limited availability
VIP merchandise items will distributed at the show.
Customers can contact [email protected] with any questions concerning their package.
Service charges apply.
It's appropriate that Boz Scaggs' new album is Out of the Blues, since the blues is what first sparked his five-decade musical career.
Born William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio on June 8, 1944, he grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, where he spent his teenage years immersed in the blues, R&B and early rock 'n' roll. While attending school in Dallas, he played in local combos. After several years as a journeyman musician around Madison, WI and Austin, TX, Scaggs spent time traveling in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, eventually settling in Stockholm where he recorded the album Boz.
Returning to the U.S. in 1967, Scaggs joined the Steve Miller Band in San Francisco, performing on that group's albums Children of the Future and Sailor, before launching his solo career with 1968's seminal Boz Scaggs LP, recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL for Atlantic Records. Scaggs continued to mine a personalized mix of rock, blues and R&B influences, along with a signature style of ballads on such influential '70s albums as Moments, Boz Scaggs & Band, My Time, Slow Dancer and 1976’s Silk Degrees. The latter release became a massive commercial breakthrough, reaching Number Two and remaining on the album charts for 115 weeks. It spawned three Top 40 hit singles: "It's Over," "Lido Shuffle" and the Grammy-winning "Lowdown." Subsequently, "We're All Alone” from that same album, would become a #1 single for Rita Coolidge. Silk Degrees was followed by the albums Down Two Then Left and Middle Man, and such hit singles as "Breakdown Dead Ahead," "Jo Jo" and "Look What You've Done to Me."
Despite his '70s successes, Scaggs spent much of the 1980s out of the music-biz spotlight, traveling, opening a family business, fathering young children and founding the San Francisco nightclub, Slim's. He returned to the studio after an 8-year hiatus and released, Other Roads, Some Change, Dig, the Grammy-nominated Come on Home, the unplugged Fade Into Light, the in-concert retrospective Greatest Hits Live as well as a stint touring with Donald Fagen’s New York Rock & Soul Review; all while continuing to maintain a loyal audience in the U.S. and overseas, particularly in Japan. A pair of albums of jazz standards, But Beautiful and Speak Low, the latter topping the Billboard Jazz chart, demonstrated Scaggs' stylistic mastery, as did the Southern-flavored Memphis and the rhythm & bluesy A Fool to Care.
"Music has been a constant companion and I'm feeling more free with it than ever," Scaggs comments. "I feel like I've found my voice through all these years, and I've gotten closer to where I want to be with my approach."
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall : Upcoming Events

Oregon Symphony presents Bach & Mendelssohn: Grace and Grandeur at the Portland'5 Arlene Schnitzer...

Oregon Symphony presents Amadeus in Concert at the Portland'5 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall...

Portland Youth Philharmonic presents their Spring Sunrise concert at the Portland'5 Arlene...

The Oregon Historical Society presents author/historian Lindsay Chervinsky: 2025 Hatfield Lecture at the...

True West presents the top-rated podcast Giggly Squad Live: Club Giggly at the Portland'5 Arlene Schnitzer...

Oregon Symphony presents Copland & Sibelius: Sounds of Spring with Xavier Foley at Arlene Schnitzer...