Guthries Ghost’s performance on Labor Day weekend has become an annual tradition at the Towne Crier. This year, renowned ambassador of the blues tradition Guy Davis joins Guthries Ghost (Jacob and David Bernz, Fred Gillen Jr., Steve Kirkman, Julie Corbalis and Jeff Eyrich) for an evening of songs honoring working people’s rights and the working tradition. The show is a hoot of sorts, so who knows who else will show up!

Guthries Ghost formed in late summer of Woody Guthrie’s centennial year. More than a decade in, their songs and shows have become more community events then straight-up concerts, with original songs and classics from the folk tradition that bring us all together. But if you listen close you may recognize something old that sounds brand new. Each of the members have solo careers in their own right, but it’s always a treat when they get together once a year for this show.

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 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.

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.”

Tickets $25 advance, $30 door

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