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Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, which is on its third year, will be hitting the big screen in over 475 theaters all over the US come July 27. The music festival, which was filmed at the Toyota Park in Chicago on June 26, features performances by the icon himself along with other big pop-rock names like Sheryl Crow and John Mayer. The two hour screening will be featured in high definition and digital surround sound. Other artists expected to appear in the movie special are Steve Winwood, Bill Murray, ZZ Top, BB King, Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy and Vince Gill. The movie will also feature backstage and behind-the-scenes footages plus artist interviews.

A couple arena shows have been announced by Eric Clapton for this summer. They will follow the Crossroads Festival which Clapton holds each year from the Chicago area. The June 26 show will feature Jeff Beck, The Allman Brothers Band, ZZ Top and John Mayer among others and take pace in Bridgeview, IL. Following the festival, Clapton will be visiting four other cities in the Midwest, kicking things off in Milwaukee, WI on June 28 and wrapping up in Clarkston, MI on July 3.

Eric Clapton will be performing at Summerfest this year. According to organizers, Clapton’s performance is slated to take place at Marcus Amphitheater at 7:30 pm on June 28. The winner of 18 Grammy awards, Clapton is well known for hit singles such as “Tears in Heaven,” “Wonderful Tonight,” “Cocaine,” and “Layla.”

Starting March 15, unsigned musicians will be able to enter the contest for Ernie Ball Play Crossroads at playcrossroads.com for an opportunity to perform live at the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival on Ernie Ball Village Stage. Eric Clapton’s festival will take place in Chicago at Toyota Park on June 26 and be presented by T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G.

Eric Clapton, rock guitar legend, has enlisted an impressive lineup of artists for the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, including John Mayer, Buddy Guy, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Steve Winwood, ZZ Top and The Allman Brothers Band. Set to take place at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, IL on June 26, the festival will also be featuring Doyle Bramhall II, Jimmy Vaughn, Robert Randolph, Keb’ Mo’ and Robert Cray among others.

Only days after Eric Clapton unveiled plans for several upcoming joint performances with fellow British rock guitarist Jeff Beck, he has now announced that in 2010 he will being teaming up with Roger Daltrey, another fellow rock legend from The Who, for a solo tour. After Clapton finishes off his four city stint with Beck in mid February, he will be setting out on his solo tour beginning in Pittsburgh on February 25. Clapton is currently scheduled to perform in almost one dozen Southern, Midwestern and Eastern cities through mid March. Each night Daltrey will be opening the show.

Early next year Eric Clapton will be playing several shows together with Jeff Beck. It’s the very first time that the two rock guitarists and legends have co-headlined on a tour together. Clapton and Beck were band mates with the Yardbirds during the 1960s. Beck replaced Clapton as lead guitarist after Clapton left the Yardbirds in 1965. Clapton and Beck will perform at Madison Square Garden in New York on February 18.

Jeff Beck will be replacing Eric Clapton at one of the concerts for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that are being held October 29-30 in New York. Clapton had been scheduled to perform October 30 on the second night of the 25th anniversary show for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. According to his camp, Clapton is still recovering from gallstone surgery.

Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton, two of rock music’s greatest legends, will this summer be reuniting once again for a tour of 14 cities. The trek follows on the heels of the duo’s successful three night run last year in New York City. Last February the two former members of Blind Faith connected for three shows in New York City. In the summer of 2007 Clapton was joined by Winwood for his musical set at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago. The pair performed a couple songs from Traffic, Winwood’s old band.