There is plenty of space still available for this concert; you can pay at the door (cash or check). Gate opens at 6:45 PM. We hope to see you there.
The Routes of Blues
Whether Guy Davis is appearing on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” or nationally syndicated radio programs such as Garrison Keillor’s, “A Prairie Home Campanion”, “Mountain Stage” or David Dye’s,“World Café”, in front of 15,000 people on the Main Stage of a major festival, or teaching an intimate gathering of students at a Music Camp, Guy feels the instinctive desire to give each listener his ‘all’.
His ‘all’ is the Blues.
The routes, and roots, of his blues are as diverse as the music form itself. It can be soulful, moaning out a people’s cry, or playful and bouncy as a hay-ride.
Guy can tell you stories of his
great-grandparents and his grandparents, they’re days as track
linemen, and of their interactions with the infamous KKK. He can
also tell you that as a child raised in middle-class New York
suburbs, the only cotton he’s picked is his underwear up off the
floor. 
He's a musician, composer, actor, director, and writer. But most importantly, Guy Davis is a bluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity.
Throughout his career, he has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues and bringing them to as many ears as possible through the material of the great blues masters, African American stories, and his own original songs, stories and performance pieces.
His influences are as varied as the days. Musically, he enjoyed such great blues musicians as Blind Willie McTell (and his way of story telling), Skip James, Manse Lipscomb, Mississippi John Hurt, Elizabeth Cotton, and Buddy Guy, among others. It was through Taj Mahal that he found his way to the old time blues. He also loved such diverse musicians as Fats Waller and Harry Belafonte.
His writing and storytelling have been influenced by Zora Neale Hurston, Garrison Keillor, and by the late Laura Davis (his one hundred and five year-old grandmother).
"Davis’ folksy and humble stage presence,
combined with his humorous monologues, made one feel that this
was not a concert, but rather, an impromptu performance on a
front porch down in some southern swamp. Indeed, at
times Davis had the audience singing, clapping and stomping
their feet."
--Daily Herald Tribune, Grand Prairie, Alberta