Eric Clapton to host 4th Crossroads Guitar Festival

Eric Clapton will host his fourth Crossroads Guitar Festival on April 12 and 13, 2012 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

While no official announcement has been made, two artists, Sonny Landreth and Blake Mills, have announced the dates with Mills also posting the letter he received from Eric Clapton inviting him to play.

Clapton held his first festival in 2004 at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Texas with the intention of showcasing a variety of guitarists and to benefit Eric's Crossroads Drug Treatment Center in Antigua. He followed up with shows at Toyota Park in Bridgeview (Chicago), IL in both 2007 and 2010.