Bonnie will perform at the Americana Music Association Awards & Honors on September 20, 2023. Join the festivities beginning at 6:30pm CT via live stream at NPR Music, Circle All Access’ YouTube channel and the Americana Music Association’s Facebook page!

Austin City Limits has just announced a stellar slate of fall tapings to complete Season 49, featuring multiple Grammy-winning icons and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legends, including Bonnie Raitt! On October 15, Bonnie will return to ACL for a taping of her first headlining appearance in over a decade, to showcase her triple Grammy-winning album Just Like That… Bonnie will be joined by her incredible band as well as a special guest, Nashville-based singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso Sunny War.
https://acltv.com/2023/09/07/new-tapings-pat-benatar-neil-giraldo-brittney-spencer-alanis-morissette-foo-fighters-and-bonnie-raitt-with-sunny-war/

About a week before October 15th, a ticket giveaway for the taping in Austin will be posted at https://acltv.com/tapings/

Mark your calendars!

Bonnie and her label Redwing Records are collaborating with Sunrise Records Canada to offer you a chance to win #FrontRow tickets to see Bonnie and her band in concert as she takes the Just Like That… Tour across Canada in September and October. Click the link below to enter for your chance to win tickets in #Penticton, #Edmonton and #Calgary. Chances to enter to win tickets in the remaining cities to follow!

https://www.sunriserecords.com/deals

Please let us continue to keep the people of West Maui as well as the Upcountry part of the island in your hearts as they navigate the incredibly difficult aftermath of the devastating wildfires. If you are able to send donations to Hawaii-based non-profits supporting community-organized mutual aid relief hubs, please consider doing so today. Thousands of people, including families with young children and elderly relatives are displaced and are struggling to meet their basic needs amid the ongoing chaos and frustrating response from the government. The local community in Lāhainā have been mobilized and helping each other for the past 10 days, but their need for support to continue to help their neighbors is ongoing. It’s so important to help these families be able to stay in Lāhainā and not be forced to move elsewhere. Please donate if you can, anything helps. Some suggested links are below. Thank you. — BRHQ

Maui Rapid Response: https://mauirapidresponse.org
Hawaiʻi People’s Fund: https://www.hawaiipeoplesfund.org/?fbclid=IwAR3i8fZtxFJSlSkTI9S9Bz9pm-BbIJ8uEAZbQeWK2VY0qW9GD938HYds_mQ
ʻĀina Momona: https://www.kaainamomona.org
Council of Native Hawaiian Advancement, Alaka’ina and Kakoʻo Haleākalā: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui
Hawaiʻi Community Foundation Maui Strong Disaster Relief: https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong
Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/donate/

For those of you also wanting to help local musicians who lost their homes and instruments, we are so glad to see that MusiCares is offering Maui musicians immediate relief for basic living expenses, medical expenses, destroyed instruments, and more. Please support the fund at the link below and reach out to MusiCares if you are a musician in need of support: https://www.musicares.org/about?form=FUNHPSNLFDZ

Photo Credit: Megan Moseley/Maui Now

Just rocked by the devastating tragedy unfolding in Maui. Have loved playing and visiting there since the early 70’s. My heart goes out to all and let’s send our love and support the best we can. Here are some terrific organizations helping on the ground now.
Thank you, Bonnie

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuamaui
https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong
https://wck.org/relief/hawaii-wildfires-2023

Photo by Matthew Thayer/AP

Bonnie was thrilled to be a part of a remarkable musical safari to Mali, West Africa, in January of 2000. Led by her friends at Afropop Worldwide, she and a group of avid fans got to experience some of their favorite artists playing live in both towns and local clubs from Bamako to Timbuktu. These included the legendary OumouSangare, DjelimadyTounkara, LobiTraore, AliFarkaToure and HabibKoite. Habib came along for some of the trip and the next year, on tour in the States, brought his band Bamada into the studio in LA to collaborate with Bonnie on their song together, “Back Around,” for her Silver Lining album, released In 2001. She’s been playing the song for the first time live on this latest Just Like That… tour. Afropop Worldwide is revisiting their audio program about the journey, including interviews, music clips and recollections about the trip in the piece “Mali Magic 2000” at the link below. — BRHQ
https://afropop.org/audio-programs/mali-magic-2000

Rest in peace, dear Tony Bennett. One of the greatest singers of all time, and one of the warmest, most joyful and evolved people I’ve ever known. One of the honors of my lifetime was getting to duet with him on his Bennett Sings the Blues album back in 2001. My love and sympathy go out to his family and don’t we know there’ll be some swingin’ on high when Tony passes through those gates.

Thanks to my longtime friend and inspiration, Chris Smither, for being my special guest, at our show last month at the Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater in upstate New York. What a great pair!
https://smither.com

Thanks to my dear pal, Maia Sharp, once again knocking ’em out as my special guest opening our recent shows in Louisville and Indianapolis. She debuted new music from her upcoming album, Restless Thoughts. Check out her new singles and stay tuned for more!

KIND: https://youtu.be/WesjOnCPhVE

OLD DREAMS: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/maiasharp/old-dreams

“The key to playing this song is to keep the guitar sparse and supportive, and let the powerful story sink in.”

Acoustic Guitar has published a feature on how to play Bonnie’s GRAMMYs-winning Song of the Year, “Just Like That.” Beyond the underlying chords, they break down the added embellishments, voicings, and subtle variations to perfectly match the song itself.
Read more about that here: https://acousticguitar.com/how-to-play-bonnie-raitts-grammy-winning-story-song-just-like-that/

If you’re looking to learn how to play “Just Like That” the way Bonnie does, you can order a physical copy of the May/June Acoustic Guitar issue right here:
https://store.acousticguitar.com/products/no-340-may-june-2023?_gl=16ikl79_gaNjk0OTIxMzE4LjE2ODU2NTk2NTQ._ga_DDZE3W23MZ*MTY4NTY1OTY1NC4xLjEuMTY4NTY2MDM2NS4wLjAuMA

Photo taken at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)