Back-to-back Grammy nominee Guy Davis brings his exceptional traditional blues, roots and world music to the Me&Thee stage on April 4 at 8 p.m.
Davis is a musician who is also known as an actor, author and songwriter who uses a blend of roots, blues, folk, rock, rap, spoken word and world music to sing about and comment on the issues of social injustice, historical events and common life struggles.
He plays six and 12-string guitars, the five-string banjo, harmonica and didgeridoo. Davis has performed alongside Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Kris Kristofferson, Buffy Saint-Marie, T-Bone Burnett, Taj Mahal, Keb Mo and John Hammond — and he has also opened for Chuck Berry, Joan Armatrading, James Cotton and B.B. King, among others.
Davis has performed across America and throughout most of Europe and South America, as well as Australia, Indonesia, Ukraine, Russia, and Canada. He’s performed in Soviet-occupied East Berlin and was once chased out of Red Square in Moscow for trying to sing.
His deep storytelling contrasts modern-day commercial music, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking. A self-taught “Renaissance man,” he first heard the banjo at a summer camp run by John Seeger, the brother of Pete Seeger, and soon after asked his father for one. He’s been playing ever since.
Online tickets are only available at meandthee.org and in-person at Arnould Gallery at 111 Washington Street. Doors will open at 7:15 p.m. on April 4, and it is community seating. Freshly baked desserts, mulled cider, coffee, tea and seltzers will be available before the show and during intermission.
