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Get ready for the Blues Guitar event of the year! Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Samantha Fish, two of the most electrifying talents in contemporary blues, are teaming up for the 2025 Gone Fishin' Tour. Handpicked by Eric Clapton for his prestigious 2023 Crossroads Festival and invited by Slash to join the 2024 S.E.R.P.A.N.T. traveling blues festival, Kingfish and Samantha Fish will each deliver their own unforgettable sets bringing their signature styles and unparalleled guitar skills to stages across the country. This promises to be a night of soulful, high-energy blues. Don’t miss your chance to witness two of America's top Blues guitarist as they join forces for this once-in-a-lifetime tour, the 2025 Gone Fishin' Tour.

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

GRAMMY-winning guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has quickly become the defining blues voice of his generaEon. From his hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi to stages around the globe, the young blues star has already headlined mulEple U.S. and European tours, and amazed fans in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and India. Selected in summer 2022 to open for The Rolling Stones in London’s Hyde Park, Kingfish has also performed and toured with friends including Vampire Weekend, Jason Isbell, Steve Miller and Buddy Guy, a mentor of his, with whom he appeared on AusEn City Limits.

Since he burst onto the scene in 2019, Ingram has been nominated for 12 Blues Music Awards and won them all. Rolling Stone declared, “Kingfish is one of the most exciEng young guitarists in years, with a sound that encompasses B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Prince.” In September 2023, Kingfish released his jaw-dropping, GRAMMY-nominated, third album, Live In London. Recorded on June 6, 2023, in front of a sweaty, sold-out, standing-room- only crowd at the famous UK club, The Garage, Live In London is the guitar-driven live album Kingfish’s fans around the world have been clamoring for since they first watched him perform as a teenager on YouTube.

Sparked by his non-stop touring, wriEng and recording schedule, Kingfish’s natural talent just keeps growing. With his jaw-dropping guitar playing and his reach-out-and-grab-you-by-the- collar vocals, he performs every song with unmatched passion and precision. To see him live in person is an onstage snapshot of the young singer, songwriter and guitarist creaEng musical magic in real Eme, leaving his listeners spellbound and always wanEng more.

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Samantha Fish

One of the most formidable guitarists of her generation, Samantha Fish deals in her own unmatched brand of bravado, bringing both mind-blowing power and extraordinary emotionality to everything she creates. Since first introducing the world to her larger-than-life talent, the multi-award-winning festival headliner has built a triumphant career whose latest milestones include earning a Grammy nomination for Death Wish Blues (her 2023 collaboration with rocker Jesse Dayton) and opening for The Rolling Stones on their final 2024 U.S. tour date. On her new album Paper Doll, Fish offers up nine powerhouse songs that hit with an unstoppable force, each delivered with an exquisite dose of illuminating insight, soul-soothing empathy, and—above all—newly heightened clarity of vision. “It’s taken me years to finally find my voice in a studio setting,” Fish admits. “But with this record I took everything I had, and slammed it right on the table.”

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