Mavis Staples to Play Boiler Shop this Summer

Boiler Shop is lucky to be welcoming Mavis Staples to Newcastle this summer.

Mavis Staples is living, breathing history. She is an alchemist of American music, having continuously crossed genre lines like no musician since Ray Charles. Weaving herself into the very fabric of gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, blues, rock and hip hop, this iconic singer has seen and sung through so many changes, rising up to meet every road.

At the beginning of her eighth decade of singing truth, Mavis Staples has delivered the album “If All I Was Was Black” (ANTI- Records), ten songs about America today, where the present is filled with ghosts of the past. "Nothing has changed," Mavis said in early August, just days before the world watched neoNazis march with swastika flags in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a young woman was murdered. "We are still in it." 
 

“If All I Was Was Black” represents Mavis' third collaboration with songwriter and producer (and Wilco frontman) Jeff Tweedy. Their first partnership in 2010, “You Are Not Alone”, won a Grammy Award for Best Americana album. Their second effort together, “One True Vine”, was a Grammy nominee. But “If All I Was Was Black” marks the first time Tweedy has composed an entire album of original songs for Mavis' legendary voice and a nation she's uniquely poised to address. 
 
Boiler Shop is delighted to welcome her to Newcastle on Friday 13 July 2018. 

Be sure to book tickets in advance, so as not to miss out on this wonderful performance.