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Guy Davis
Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues....
8:00pm - 10:30pm Doors at: 7:00pm
$30 advance/ $35 door
Artists
Acoustic Blues and African-American Stories from New York City New York
Event Description
Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues. He’s a musician, actor, author, and songwriter. Guy uses a blend of roots/ blues/ folk/ rock/ rap/ spoken word & world music to comment on and address the frustrations of social injustice and common life struggles by touching on historical events.
Guy’s background in theater is pronounced through the lyrical storytelling of songs “God’s Gonna Make Things Over” about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, “Welcome to My World”, and “Got Your Letter In My Pocket”. His storytelling is sometimes painful, deep and real. It’s meant to create thought, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking.
Guy won “Keeping The Blues Alive” Award, and was nominated by The Blues Foundation for Best Acoustic Album of the Year, Best Acoustic Artist of the Year, and Best Instrumentalist. In fact, he's been nominated nearly two dozen times by the Blues Foundation.
Among hundreds of newspaper appearances, he's also been featured in articles or reviews by New York Times, Village Voice, Boston Globe, Pulse Magazine, Blues Magazine, Acoustic Guitar, Dirty Linen, Songlines, Blues Blast Magazine, Living Blues, Down At the Crossroads, The San Francisco Chronicle, Association For Independent Music (formerly NAIRD), Playboy Magazine, National Public Radio (NPR), "Folk Alley", and Sirius.
When asked about his experience as a performer, Guy has replied, “There is no tale so tall that I cannot tell it, nor song so sweet that I cannot sing it.”
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