Mavis Staples

In concert Saturday May 12, 2018 7:00PM

Lyric Theatre, Lexington KY

Tickets are on sale Friday Feb 23 at 1PM

For tickets call the Box Office 859-280-2218 or Tix.com

The volunteers of the TROUBADOUR CONCERT SERIES are excited to announce music legend MAVIS STAPLES a special concert event with one of the most influential singers of our time. and her full band on Saturday May 12 for a 7PM concert at the Lyric Theatre.

For six decades, Mavis Staples has been the solid rock of American music. Alongside the family group she is so indentified with, the Staple Singers, she has managed to transform herself as she goes, yet never alter. From the Delta-inflected gospel sound she helped create in the 1950s, to the engaged protest of the civil rights era, and then, amazingly, on pop radio in the Stax era with a series of soul anthems, from “I’ll Take You There” to “Respect Yourself,” Staples carried on, her warm embrace of a voice the only constant. How many musicians can claim this: to exist outside a scene, outside genre, yet weaving themselves into the fabric of soul, R&B, jazz, gospel, rock and blues?

www.mavisstaples.com



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