Mavis Staples in Rutland
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Venue: Paramount Theatre, Rutland, VT
Performer: Mavis Staples
7PM Lobby doors open: 6PM Seating begins: 6:30PM Tickets: $55, $65, $75, $85 + tax/fees Complimentary vouchers are not valid for this performance Grim days call for fierce love. And Mavis Staples, one of the most enduring figures in American music, is laying it down. Now 86, Mavis has been performing since the age of eight. After starting out with her father Roebuck “Pops” Staples, sisters Cleotha and Yvonne, and brother Pervis in the Staple Singers more than seventy years ago, she’s the lone surviving member of the group, still carrying her family’s gifts and knowledge with her as a living…
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