DATE: Friday - October 22, 2010
TIME: 8:00PM (doors open at 5:30PM)

TICKET PRICES:
   Members - Advanced $20.00, At door $22.00
   Non-Member - Advanced $22.00, At door $24.00



GENRE: Blues

BIOGRAPHY:

Like the best early bluesmen, Guy Davis is, at heart, a storyteller. A master at setting intimate, richly nuanced tales to stomping acoustic blues backing, often with folky accompaniment from mandolin, banjo, and accordion, he helped revitalize the state of country blues in the 1990s with a string of critically acclaimed albums for Red House Records. Davis is the son of actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, and that theatrical inclination didn't escape Guy himself: He also has authored and starred in several off-Broadway musicals, and even weathered an early stint on television's One Life To Live.

"If the earthy power of Guy Davis's sandpaper vocals doesn't grab your attention and the resonance of his acoustic guitar strings doesn't turn your head, you need to make sure you're still alive... He sings, 'I ain't no bluesman/I'm the bluesman's son,' a nice analogy for his music-- it's linked to the past but living today." -Robert Gordon