Tedeschi Trucks Band offering free tickets to Memorial Auditorium concert

Guitarist Derek Trucks and his wife, vocalist/guitarist Susan Tedeschi, kick off the new year with a winter tour ahead of their fourth studio LP, which will be released Feb. 15. The tour stops in Memorial Auditorium Wednesday night. (Photo by Stuart Levine) Guitarist Derek Trucks and his wife, vocalist/guitarist Susan Tedeschi, kick off the new year with a winter tour ahead of their fourth studio LP, which will be released Feb. 15. The tour stops in Memorial Auditorium Wednesday night. (Photo by Stuart Levine)

By Dave Gil de Rubio / Correspondent January 16, 2019 4 min read

If you go

› What: Tedeschi Trucks Band with Marcus King Band› Where: Memorial Auditorium, 399 McCallie Ave.› When: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23› Admission: $29.50, $39.50, $59.50, $79.50 and $99.50› For more information: 423-757-5580

UPDATE: The Tedeschi Trucks Band is offering free tickets to Wednesday night’s show at Memorial Auditorium for local first responders, furloughed government employees and active duty military personnel. Just show your work ID at the box office between now and the 8 p.m. showtime and they will give you a pair of tickets (while supplies last), according to an email from the band.

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Automobile magnate Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

While this may be an odd source to reflect how far the Tedeschi Trucks Band has come, understand that since Susan Tedeschi and husband Derek Trucks decided to join creative forces in 2010, they’ve attained quite a number of milestones.