Doug MacLeod LIVE, 17 October | Event in Borrego Springs | AllEvents

Doug MacLeod LIVE

Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center

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Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

1 hour

Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center

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Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm (PDT)

Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center

590 Palm Canyon Dr, Borrego Springs, CA 92004, United States

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Doug MacLeod LIVE
Blues legend Doug MacLeod brings award-winning songwriting, soulful vocals, masterful guitar, and unforgettable storytelling to the stage.

Doug MacLeod is known for his superb songwriting, guitar wizardry, warm soulful vocals, wit, and unforgettable live performances. At the heart of a Doug MacLeod performance is his knack for storytelling, bringing characters from the faceless to the legendary to strikingly real life.

Doug is a multiple Blues Music Award winner, including the 2024 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album Of The Year Raw Blues 1 and the 2023 the Blues Music Award for Acoustic Artist Of The Year. In 2025 he received two Blues Music Award nominations for Acoustic Artist Of the Year and Acoustic Album Of the Year Raw Blues 2. In 2022 A SOUL TO CLAIM produced by Jim Gaines was released. It was named a Downbeat Magazine ‘Album Of The Year’ for 2022. 

Doug is an international touring artist who writes and sings original songs that are based on his own life and experiences. He learned from the old masters and carries forward a valuable tradition. As a youth, Doug overcame abuse and a crippling stutter by turning to music. After picking up a guitar, and singing - he found his voice.

MacLeod's playing landed him sideman gigs with George 'Harmonica' Smith, Big Joe Turner, Pee Wee Crayton, Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Lowell Fulson, and Big Mama Thornton. Over 40 years, 29 studio albums, several live records, compilations, two blues guitar instructional DVDs, and a live performance DVD, MacLeod has consistently earned raves. His songs have been covered by many artists including Albert King, Albert Collins, Joe Louis Walker and Eva Cassidy. MacLeod's songs have been featured in many TV movies and the hit show In the Heat of the Night. August Wilson requested his soulful slide guitar playing in the Los Angeles opening of "Gem of the Ocean”.

From 1999 to 2004 Doug hosted Nothin' But The Blues, a very popular weekend blues show on Los Angeles' KLON-KKJZ. He has also been the voice for The Blues Showcase on Continental Airlines. For ten years he penned "Doug's Back Porch," a regular feature column in Blues Revue Magazine in which he shared his humorous and insightful stories with thousands of readers. He is one of the four featured artists in the movie “Resonate: A Guitar Story”, the feature documentary on the making of National Guitars. 

Like the old masters who taught him, MacLeod's music expresses life and times through an intangible, elusive quality that may simply be a keen sense of what matters most. Doug’s music, stories, and philosophy provide a healing that has helped others overcome the hardships of their lives. 

Doug says the most important lessons he learned as a young musician came from Ernest Banks a one-eyed country bluesman from Toano, VA. "Never play a note you don't believe” and "Never write or sing about what you don't know about.” 

As Blues Hall Of Fame artist Pee Wee Crayton's widow Esther once told Doug, "You have a message and you'll send that message mainly to the people who don't go to church." Amen
 
Testimonials:
Like all great blues men, MacLeod lives his music, 
and the songs are not just on the tips of his fingers 
and tongue, they are one with his being.” 
- Blues Music Magazine
 
"One of the great blues artists... Period!" 
- Jorma Kaukonen.
 
"Doug MacLeod is one of the last and most iconic 
songwriters in blues that the contemporary scene 
can still offer.” 
- Macallé Blues 

A BSPAC production, brought to you by Mitzi Matijevich and Option B Entertainment.

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Doug MacLeod LIVE, 17 October | Event in Borrego Springs | AllEvents
Doug MacLeod LIVE
Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm