ABOUT THE ARTISTS

TRUE COREY HARRIS is a GUY DAVIS is actor – mark him as a Renaissance guitarist, vocalist, a GRAMMY®- man, yet remain his first songwriter and nominated and greatest love. Guy’s one-man Corey Harris band leader who guitarist, vocalist, play, The Adventures of Fishy Waters: has carved out his harmonica player In Bed With the Blues, premiered own niche in blues. and story teller. Off-Broadway in the ’90s and has & Guy Davis A powerful singer He has spent since been released as a double CD. and accomplished his musical life He went on to star Off-Broadway guitarist, he has appeared at venues carrying his message of the blues as the legendary Robert Johnson throughout North America, , around the world, from the Equator to in Robert Johnson: Trick The Devil, FRI / SEP 28 / 7:30 PM Brazil, Caribbean, West Africa, Asia, the Arctic Circle, earning him the title winning the Blues Foundation’s and New Zealand. He began “An Ambassador of the Blues.” Guy’s “Keeping the Blues Alive” award. his career as a New Orleans street musical storytelling is influenced by He followed the footsteps of another singer, travelling throughout the artists like Blind Willie McTell and Big blues legend when he joined the southern U.S. In his early twenties he Bill Broonzy, and his musicality from Broadway production of Finian’s Guy Davis lived in , West Africa, for artists as diverse as Lightnin’ Hopkins Rainbow, playing the part originally a year, which had a profound effect and Babatunde Olatunji. However, done in 1947 by Sonny Terry. 6 & 12-STRING , HARMONICAS on his later work. He has recorded there is one man that Guy most Along the way he cut nine acclaimed AND VOCALS many old songs of the blues tradition credits for his harmonica techniques, albums for the Red House label and Corey Harris while also creating an original vision by stealing from him, and crediting, four for his own label, Smokeydoke AND VOCALS of the blues by adding influences everything that he could, and that Records; and was nominated for from reggae, soul, rock and West man is the legendary Sonny Terry. nearly a dozen Blues Awards. African music. His 1995 recording, Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage. Between Midnight and Day, is a His much-praised 1995 debut, Stomp tribute to the tradition of acoustic Down the Rider on Red House There will be one 15-minute intermission. blues. Subsequent recordings, such Records, marked the arrival of a as Greens From the Garden (1999), major talent, earning acclaim for Corey Harris Mississippi to (2003), and Daily his deft acoustic playing, his well- Bread (2005) show his maturation travelled voice and his literate, yet Guy Davis from interpreter to songwriter. highly accessible, song writing. Some of his imaginative compositions He’s barely rested since then, taking are marked by a deliberate his music to television (the Conan eclecticism; other works stay true O’Brien and David Letterman shows) to the traditional blues formula of and radio (A Prairie Home Companion, compelling vocals and down-home Mountain Stage, World Cafe, E-Town), guitar. With one foot in tradition as well as performing at theaters and and the other in contemporary festivals. His parallel careers – as a experimentation, he is a truly unique musician, an author, a music teacher voice in contemporary music. and a film, television and Broadway

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