GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING SINGER/SONGWRITER BOZ SCAGGS RETURNS TO FANTASY SPRINGS RESORT CASINO ON FRIDAY, OCT. 17, 2025
May 13, 2025 – INDIO, CA – Soulful singer, songwriter, and guitarist Boz Scaggs is set to return to the Special Events Center at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. Tickets to the 8 p.m. show go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 16 at the Fantasy Springs Box Office, via phone (760) 342-5000 or online at www.FantasySpringsResort.com.
Born in Canton, Ohio in 1944, Scaggs grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, where he spent his teenage years immersed in the blues, R&B and early rock ’n’ roll. After several years as a journeyman musician around Madison, Wisconsin and Austin, Texas, he ventured throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, eventually settling in Stockholm, where he recorded the album, Boz.
An early bandmate of Steve Miller in The Ardells and the Steve Miller Band, he began his solo career in 1969, though he lacked a major hit until his 1976 album Silk Degrees peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and produced the hit singles “Lido Shuffle” and “Lowdown.”
Scaggs produced two more platinum-certified albums in Down Two Then Left and Middle Man, the latter of which produced two top-40 singles “Breakdown Dead Ahead” and “Jojo.” After a hiatus for most of the 1980s, he returned to recording and touring in 1988, joining The New York Rock and Soul Revue and opening the nightclub Slim’s, a popular San Francisco music venue until it closed in 2020.
He has continued to record and tour throughout the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, with his most recent album being 2018’s Out of the Blues.
Scaggs is also credited for helping the formation of Toto. For his 1976 album, Silk Degrees, he hand picked musicians after taking suggestions from several people. These musicians were David Paich, David Hungate, and Jeff Porcaro. The three were already friends and had frequently performed together on other albums, such as Steely Dan’s Pretzel Logic. By going on tour with Scaggs, it solidified the prospect of starting a band. Columbia picked up on this talent by offering the new group a contract “without audition.”
Steve Porcaro described this as “a record deal thrown in our laps.” Paich stated “I’m not sure if Toto would have happened as soon, or quite the same way, without Silk Degrees.”
Their friendship has continued throughout the decades shown by the varying collaborations and concerts performed together. Paich teamed up once more for Scaggs’ 2001 album, Dig, where he contributed to 6 out of the 11 songs.
Tickets to see Boz Scaggs go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 16 at the Fantasy Springs Box Office, via phone (760) 342-5000 or online at www.FantasySpringsResort.com.
