Event Details: Eric Bibb & Guy Davis

Grammy nominee Eric Bibb is a native New Yorker with deep roots in the American blues and folk tradition. The son of 1960s folk and musical theater singer and television personality Leon Bibb, Eric’s uncle was the jazz pianist and composer John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Paul Robeson was his godfather.

For four decades, he  has criss-crossed the globe, captivating live audiences by bearing witness to the infinite complexities of the human experience – both the mundane and the spiritual – with music that’s steeped in the tradition of American blues and layered with generous shades of folk and gospel. He is, in every respect, a modern-day troubadour – heir to the legacy of Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Odetta and countless other great voices of the early and mid-20th century.He has toured the world, performing at major festivals from the London Blues Festival to the Montreal Jazz Festival.

Handy Award winner Guy Davis has combined a theatrical legacy, as the son of stage legends Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, with a deep sense of the blues as the central trunk of African-American culture. He has portrayed Robert Johnson Off-Broadway, appeared on Broadway in Mule Bone (music by Taj Mahal), and in the highly acclaimed revival of Finian’s Rainbow.

Eric Bibb and Guy Davis join their blues lineages in a pilgrimage to find and preserve the mystical center of the blues in today’s world, and to forge from it a positive message for our times.

Ticket Prices: $15, $25, $30 / Lensic Member, Children and Student discounts available