Half Moon presents:

Guy Davis

Half Moon - Putney, London

£15 Adv / £17 Door
Entry Requirements: 18+ after 7pm

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 theatre is pronounced through the lyrical storytelling of songs “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, an earthy contrast to modern-day commercial music, meant to create thought, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking.

Guy won “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. In fact, he's been nominated nearly two dozen times by the Blues Foundation.

Among hundreds of newspaper appearances, he's also been featured in articles or reviews by New York Times, Village Voice, Boston Globe, Pulse Magazine, Blues Magazine, Acoustic Guitar, Dirty Linen, Songlines, Blues Blast Magazine, Living Blues, Down At the Crossroads, The San Francisco Chronicle, Association For Independent Music (formerly NAIRD), Playboy Magazine, National Public Radio (NPR), "Folk Alley", and Sirius.

When asked about his experience as a performer, Guy has replied, “There is no tale so tall that I cannot tell it, nor song so sweet that I cannot sing it.”

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This US acoustic bluesman has more than 12 critically acclaimed albums to his name and he's also enjoyed stage success on, and off, Broadway. Like all the great bluesmen Guy is, at heart, a great storyteller.

Charismatic, inventive, and great fun, a performance with Guy Davis will leave an indelible impression for all the right reasons !

His album 'Juba Dance' was nominated under 'Best Blues Album' and Guy himself was nominated as 'Best Acoustic Blues Musician' for the 2014 National Blues Awards.

'His own compositions are so in tune with the tradition that they seemas though they were written after a hard day in the cotton fields.' (Sydney Morning Herald)

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