SBBS presents Tommy Castro & the Painkillers

Name: SBBS presents Tommy Castro & the Painkillers
Start: 2026-01-17T19:00:00-08:00
Location: Carrillo Recreation Center

Schedule

Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Carrillo Recreation Center | Santa Barbara, CA

After a three year hiatus, internationally renowned Tommy Castro returns with his band The Painkillers to play for the Santa Barbara Blues Society on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.
One of the most popular blues performers in the world, Castro has been praised for his “soulful voice and searing guitar…top of the line blues.” Blues Music Magazine has praised his “impassioned vocals and pure inventiveness in his stellar guitar solos.”
Castro has received an amazing 21 Blues Music Award nominations from the Blues Foundation, the world’s largest blues organization, and has won ten BMAs, for Contemporary Male Performer of the Year, Band of the Year, Album of the Year, and three times for the top honor, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year.