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PORTLAND — On the heels of a performance that closed out this year’s Newport Jazz Festival, the acclaimed 11-member Tedeschi Trucks Band will continue its nationwide trek which includes a show at the State Theatre.

That performance will be at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27. For tickets for reserved seating, $75, $50 or $40, visit www.statetheatreportland.com.

Founded in 2010 by husband-and-wife Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi after setting aside their successful solo careers, the blues-rock ensemble has taken the music world by storm.

Their debut album, “Revelator” (2011), was given four out of five stars by Rolling Stone. It also earned the band a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album and helped it dominate the Blues Music Awards with four trophies, including both Band and Album of the Year.

Their second album, “Everybody’s Talkin’,” released in May, is a double live disc recorded on the band’s fall tour last year, which includes performances of songs on “Revelator,” as well as covers of rock, R&B and gospel classics. On “Everybody’s Talkin’,” the band delivers up the joyful, spontaneous energy for which it is known.

The Tedeschi Trucks Band has played at the White House with BB King, Mick Jagger and Buddy Guy among others and performed at the Apollo Theater, joining Eric Clapton Keith Richards and a host of blues guitar heavyweights in an all-star tribute to bluesman Hubert Sumlin.

The band also played at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, joining Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, TonyBennett, Stevie Wonder and others to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day.

Besides Tedeschi and Trucks, the Tedeschi Trucks Band includes harmony vocalists Mike Mattison (lead singer with The Derek Trucks Band) and Mark Rivers; brothers Oteil Burbridge (longtime bassist with The Allman Brothers Band) and Kofi Burbridge (keyboardist/flutist with The Derek Trucks Band); drummers J.J. Johnson and Tyler Greenwell; trumpeter Maurice Brown; tenor saxophonist Kebbi Williams; and trombonist Saunders Sermons.

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