UPDATE 5-13-20 – Richie Kotzen’s concert at The Vault Music Hall has been postponed due to Covid-19. JKB Entertainment Group/Limelight Magazine is currently working on rescheduling the performance to a Saturday in either January or February 2021. We will share additional information as soon as possible. While you can request a refund, anyone who decides to hang onto their ticket will receive an 11”x17” event poster. You can pick it up with proper I.D. immediately after the show. (Posters will only be given to anyone who purchased a ticket through May 15, 2020).

To coincide with his 50^th birthday, Richie Kotzen is embarking on a solo tour with his band that will make a stop at the Vault Music Hall in New Bedford, Mass., on Saturday, June 20^th. Tickets are on-sale now and can be purchased by clicking HERE.

With guitar styles ranging from rock, blues, jazz and fusion to pop and soul, Richie Kotzen has built a remarkably diverse career as a guitarist, singer and songwriter. During that span, he has not only built an incredibly successful solo career, but has also found himself writing, recording and playing live with a variety of different artists, ranging from rock bands like The Winery Dogs, Poison and Mr. Big to jazz/fusion groups like Vertu featuring Kotzen and jazz legends Stanley Clarke and Lenny White.

A prolific songwriter, Richie has written several songs that have gone on to become hit singles around the world. His song “Stand.” written while a member of Poison, reached the top 20 on the Billboard charts. As the lead single off of their album NATIVE TONGUE, “Stand” was the catalyst for the album reaching platinum status. While with Mr. Big, Richie also enjoyed another milestone, having his song “Shine” reach #1 in both Europe and Japan.

Richie continues to make amazing records and to tour around the world, playing stadiums, festivals, and clubs. His current tours have spanned several continents, including North America, Europe, South America and Asia. He has played with many other well known musicians, has performed on television programs such as “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Live with Regis and Kelly,” and continues to appear in countless books, magazines and websites, being acknowledged as one of the top guitarists in the world!

Having recently celebrated his 50^th birthday, Kotzen is spending the entire year celebrating in as large of a way as possible to make it his biggest and most memorable birthday yet.

50 FOR 50—his 22nd solo album—has just been released on Feb 3^rd via his own custom label, HeadroomInc. The self-produced three-disc collection is just what the title implies: a collection of 50 previously unreleased compositions produced, performed and written by Kotzen in honor of his birthday. It’s the follow-up to his critically acclaimed SALTING EARTH album, which was released April 14, 2017 via Headroom-Inc.

Although Kotzen has been hailed as a guitar virtuoso since the release of his first album, it is his emotional lead vocal delivery and diverse songwriting style that separates him from his peers thanks in large part to artists that influenced him in the Philly Soul R&B to Jazz, Rock, Funk, and Fusion Guitar genres. 50 FOR 50 captures the full artistic scope of what makes Richie Kotzen such a unique artist.

“The idea of a 50 song album came to me while I was on tour sometime last year,” Kotzen explains. “I had completed what would have been your typical 10 to 12 song album and was anticipating a 2020 release. Somewhere along the line, I discovered a few completed songs that for whatever reason were never released. Along with that, I found a massive collection of material that was in various forms of completion. Some songs had drums bass and piano with no vocal, other songs were nothing more than a bass line and a vocal melody and so on. I decided to take that summer and fall, stay in the studio, and see how many of these ideas I could bring to completion. The concept was to include the already completed works and finish the other ideas and then stop once I reached 50 songs. Reality is we’ve got way more sitting on the hard drives waiting for attention. I figured if I can walk out of the studio with 50 songs (that I like) mixed and mastered, I can release a 50 song package on my 50th birthday.”

The Vault Music Hall is located at located at 791 Purchase Street in New Bedford, Mass. The venue is set within a former bank building featuring original vault doors and a truly historic feel. The show is 21+ with valid I.D.