Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues, a musician, actor, author, and songwriter. Guy uses a blend of roots, blues, folk, rock, rap, spoken word, and world music to comment on, and address, the frustrations of social injustice, touching on historical events and common life struggles. His background in theater is pronounced through the lyrical storytelling of such songs as “God’s Gonna Make Things Over” about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, “Welcome to My World,” and “Got Your Letter In My Pocket”. His storytelling is sometimes painful, deep, and real, meant to provoke thought, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking. Guy won the “Keeping the Blues Alive” Award and was nominated by the Blues Foundation for Best Acoustic Album of the Year, Best Acoustic Artist of the Year, and Best Instrumentalist. Indeed, he’s been nominated nearly two dozen times by the Blues Foundation. When asked about his experience as a performer, Guy has said: “There is no tale so tall that I cannot tell it, nor song so sweet that I cannot sing it.”
October 4 @ 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Greenwich Village Folk Festival: Live 40th Anniversary Concert