BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Guy Davis X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guy Davis DESCRIPTION:Guy Davis is a two-time Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues\, a musician\, Actor\, Author\, and Songwriter. Guy uses a blend o f roots\, blues\, folk\, rock\, rap\, spoken word\, and world music to c omment on and address the frustrations of social injustice\, touching to pics of politics\, historical events\, and common life struggles. His ba ckground in theater is pronounced through the lyrical storytelling of so ngs “God’s Gonna Make Things Over” about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massa cre\, “Welcome to My World”\, and “Got Your Letter In My Pocket” . His storytelling is painful\, deep\, and real\, an earthy contrast to modern-day commercial music\, meant to create thought underlined by gent le tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking.\n\nA self-taught “Ren aissance Man”\, he first heard the banjo at a summer camp run by John Seeger\, the brother of the American Folk Musician\, Pete Seeger.\n\nHis records while terse and truthful are softened by songs like “We All N eed More Kindness In This World”\, denoting lyrical inspiration from P ete Seeger’s “If I Had A Hammer”. Then\, teased with lyrically str utting works nudged by hip hop and honky tonk like “Kokomo Kidd”. Th e contrast between pieces provides a robust\, balanced experience\, whil e giving Guy and his audience a healthy outlet for frustration through s ong and dance.\n\nAlong with music performance\, Guy has written several scripts for stage and film. He recently debuted his latest piece\, “S ugarbelly and Other Tales My Father Told Me” at the famed Crossroads T heatre in New Brunswick\, NJ. He Previously present his other show at th e Crossroads\, “The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed with the Blues \, a one-man show whose Off-Broadway debut in 1994 received critical p raise from The New York Times and the Village Voice. Also at the Crossro ads Guy appeared with his parents in a show there called “Two Hah-hahs ’ and a Homeboy”. Guy also starred in the Off-Broadway production of “Robert Johnson\; Trick The Devil” at the New Federal Theater which earned him a “Keeping The Blues Alive” Award from The Blues Foundat ion. On Broadway\, Guy was in the cast of the Zora Neale Hurston\, Langs ton Hughes Play\, “Mulebone”\, which featured the music of Taj Mahal . And in 2009-2010\, in a revival of “Finian’s Rainbow”\, Guy unde rtook the role that was originated by one of his musical heroes\, Sonny Thomas in the original 1947 production.\n\nGuy’s earlier works in thea tre include him creating a show called\, “The Trial” (later renamed\ , “The Trial: Judgement of the People”)\, an anti-drug abuse\, one-a ct play that toured throughout the New York City shelter system\, and wa s produced Off-Broadway in 1990\, at the McGinn Cazale Theater. Another work\, “Mudsurfing”\, is a collection of three short stories\, and r eceived the 1991 Brio Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts.\n\n“To Be a Man”\, is an Emmy Award-winning film\, and the music for it was arranged\, performed\, and co-written by Guy. In 1995\, Guy’s music wa s used in the national PBS series\, The American Promise. His music has also been used for The PBS “The Story Hour” Theme Song. Guy portraye d Dr. Josh Hall for one season on the Daytime Soap\, “One Life to Live ”. He appeared in and co-wrote with Dr. John for the Nickelodeon show “Whoopie Goldberg’s Littleberg”. He was a guest on the Conan O’B rien Show with his all-star band featuring T-Bone Wolk (Hall &\; Oats \, SNL)\, John Plantania (Van Morrison\, Chip Taylor)\, Levon Helm (the band)\, Gary Burke (Bob Dylan\, Joe Jackson)\, and Mark Murphy (Walt Mic hael\, Natalie Merchant). On the big screen\, Guy starred opposite Rae D awn Chong in the seminal breakdancing film\, “Beat Street”\, produce d by Harry Belafonte. Guy performed 400 consecutive online half hour “ Coffee with Kokomo” shows during the pandemic.\n\nHe sings\, plays six and twelve string guitars\, the five-string banjo\, harmonica\, and Did geridoo.\n\nGuy has performed before the Crowned Heads of Denmark\, and even the great Jacques Cousteau. He’s played alongside Pete Seeger\, B ruce Springsteen\, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull\, Levon Helm\, Dr. John\, Kris Kristofferson\, Buffy Saint-Marie\, T-Bone Burnett\, Taj Mahal\, K eb Mo\, John Hammond\, John Sebastian\, John Denver and Don MaClean. He has opened for Chuck Berry\, Joan Armatrading\, James Cotton\, and B.B.K ing. He has performed in 48 of the 50 states\, throughout Europe\, the S candinavian States\, Australia\, Indonesia\, Mexico\, Colombia\, Ecuador \, Costa Rica\, Poland\, The Czech Republic\, Russia\, The Ukraine\, Geo rgia\, Romania\, Bulgaria\, Turkey\, Canada\, Greenland\, The Shetland I slands\, The Faroe Islands\, and The UK. He’s been chased out of Red S quare in Moscow\, sung in Soviet Occupied East Berlin\, and performed st anding in front of an iceberg in Greenland.\n\nWhen asked about his expe rience 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.”\n\n His performances feature a mix of his original songs and cover songs by Muddy Waters\, Howlin Wolf\, Pete Seeger\, Bob Dylan\, Mance Lipscombe\, Blind Willie McTell\, Leadbelly\, Lemon Jefferson\, and many others. Hi s admiration for antiquities parallels his love of music\, collecting th e “dust of old places and antiques\, people who have gone before him like savoring the ghosts of old sounds while still enjoying modern mus ic. He is a songwriter greatly influenced by his love of theater and sto rytelling\, who derives joy from touring and seeing people from all walk s of life. His hope is to bring people together\, with the commonality t hat we are all people regardless of class\, race\, or personal experienc e. While not touring he writes and performs one man plays and teaches an acting Master Classes in blues guitar styles\, harmonica\, or acting/st age presence at music camps Common Ground On The Hill\, SAMW\, SWANNANOA \, Centrum\, and others. Guy developed an education program spotlighting the Blues For Young Listeners\, and has been on the artist posters of T he Lincoln Center Institute\, “Young Audiences of NJ”\, and The Kenn edy Center. He has performed for children across the U.S. and Canada\, a s well as in Greenland\, Ecuador\, Indonesia\, Australia\, The UK\, and The Basque Region of Spain. His song “I Will Be Your Friend” was the titles to a teacher’s aide project that included two dozen songs and “Activities For Little Peace Makers” created by The Southern Poverty Law Center called Teaching Tolerance. URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/guy-davis/ UID:urn:uuid:53736c41-153f-4485-96dd-f82d31b5604a STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260610T092613Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T230000 LOCATION:181 State St\, Portland\, Maine 04101\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR