Robert Plant with Saving Grace & Suzi Dian

Live at the Eccles presents Robert Plant with Saving Grace and Rosie Flores on October 8, 2026 at the Abravanel Hall. ArtTix is the official source for tickets for Live at the Eccles events.

Robert Plant brings his acclaimed project Saving Grace to the stage for an unforgettable evening of roots-inspired music that bridges the past and present. Joined by vocalist Suzi Dian, guitarist Matt Worley, guitarist Tony Kelsey, drummer Oli Jefferson, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown, Plant explores a rich musical landscape shaped by folk, blues, gospel, country, and traditional song. Together, the ensemble breathes new life into timeless material while uncovering fresh possibilities within these beloved genres.

Originally formed as a grassroots collaboration in the Welsh borderlands, Saving Grace grew organically from a shared passion for musical discovery. The group’s sound is both intimate and expansive, weaving together haunting harmonies, hypnotic rhythms, and masterful musicianship. Their repertoire ranges from centuries-old traditional songs and spirituals to inventive interpretations of contemporary artists, creating performances that feel both deeply rooted and strikingly original.

For Plant, whose legendary career spans decades and includes his iconic work with Led Zeppelin, Saving Grace represents a creative revelation. Rather than looking backward, the group celebrates the living, evolving nature of folk and roots music, offering audiences a captivating journey through songs of love, loss, hope, and resilience. The result is a powerful and deeply moving concert experience that showcases one of rock’s most celebrated voices in an entirely new light.

Rosie Flores, triple-threat Texas musician, has never allowed the challenge of navigating the male-centric worlds of rock and country music slow her down. In fact, she often drew upon those challenges as source material in sharply observed songs she not only wrote and sang with authority and passion, but also brought to life musically as a widely respected lead guitarist in a string of notable bands.

Rosie is one of the 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellows! In September 2024 she accepted her gold medal award at the Library Of Congress, appearing at the Kennedy Center as well as the White House. 

A daughter of San Antonio whose musical journey also has included quality time in Austin, Los Angeles, and Nashville, Flores has adroitly absorbed, helped preserve, and extended the musical legacies of influential Texas musicians as varied as country music’s King of Western Swing Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, blues guitar master T-Bone Walker, and Tex Mex innovator Doug Sahm.

In the 1970s, she became one of the most celebrated performers on the “cowpunk” circuit (a hybrid of punk rock and country), alongside such other rising stars as Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Rank & File, and Los Lobos (2021 NEA National Heritage Fellows). The release of her 1987 debut solo album Rosie Flores proved her to be a singer and songwriter of the first rank, and helped lay the foundation for what coalesced into the alt country movement.

Flores became the first Latina to crack Billboard’s country music chart. For her enthusiastic participation in and ongoing promotion of Austin’s deep and wide music scene, including the annual South by Southwest Conference, the city has proclaimed Rosie Flores Day in 2006.

Flores has remained a spark plug live performer for more than five decades, a goosebump-inducing electric guitarist and songwriter as well as champion of the trailblazers who preceded her. Notably, she lured pioneering rockabilly heroines Wanda Jackson (2005 NEA National Heritage Fellow) and Janis Martin (“the female Elvis”) back into recording studios and onto concert stages for lauded late-career rejuvenations. Flores won a 2007 Peabody Award for her narration of the NPR rockabilly documentary, Whole Lotta Shakin’.

Tapping her Mexican heritage, Flores formed Las Super Tejanas with singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa, accordionist Eva Ybarra (2017 NEA National Heritage Fellow), Shelly Lara, and Las Madrugadoras mariachi trio. 

Her esteem has only grown over the years, to the point where she and her music are included in Middle Tennessee State University’s History of Country Music courses. She was afforded a prominent spotlight position in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s exhibition “Western Edge: The Roots & Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock” in Nashville.