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’70s hitmaker Boz Scaggs returns to Victoria in June

Grammy Award-winner Boz Scaggs — whose hit album, Silk Degrees, spent nearly six months on the sales charts in 1976 — will return to the Royal Theatre on June 1 for his first Victoria performance in several decades.
Mike Devlin
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Musicians and speakers, including New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Dr. John, John Boutte, John Cleary, Deacon John Moore, Jimmy Buffet, Boz Scaggs, Cyril Neville and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band sing a grand finale at a tribute for legendary New Orleans composer and recording artist Allen Toussaint, who died last week at the age of 77, in New Orleans, Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Grammy Award-winner Boz Scaggs — whose hit album, Silk Degrees, spent nearly six months on the sales charts in 1976 — will return to the Royal Theatre on June 1 for his first Victoria performance in several decades.

Scaggs, 75, is best known for his run of hits from the 1970s, which included Lido Shuffle and Lowdown. His successful mixture of blues and blue-eyed soul has kept him in and out of the studio through five decades and 19 studio albums, the latest of which, Out of the Blues, hit No. 1 on the Billboard blues chart last year. Out of the Blues is the basis for a new round of dates that include his Royal Theatre stop, his first Vancouver Island appearance since a 2014 concert at Nanaimo’s Port Theatre.

Tickets starting at $62 go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through the Royal Theatre box office (250-386-6121, rmts.bc.ca). VIP packages starting at $244.75 go sale today at 10 a.m. and include a seat in the first 12 rows.