A Steve Winwood concert in the intimate confines of the Berklee Performance Center highlights the school's as-always celebrity-studded graduation plans for this spring. Winwood - star of Blind Faith, Traffic and a long solo career, including the forthcoming "Nine Lives" album - will play a public show at the 1,200-seat hall on May 8. Tickets, available at the BPC box office and ticketmaster.com, are $35, $50, and $70. Pricey for BPC, but far less than what scalpers were getting for his recent Blind Faith reunion shows at Madison Square Garden with Eric Clapton. Call 617-747-2261 for more information.
Winwood is performing to celebrate receiving an honorary doctor of music degree from Berklee; other recipients this year are Philip Bailey and Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire, composer and Berklee alumnus Howard Shore, and Brazilian artist Rosa Passos. Bailey will be Berklee's commencement speaker on May 10 at BU's Agganis Arena, and Berklee students will play a tribute show to the honorees on May 9 at BPC, but those two events are only open to the Berklee community.
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