DOUBLE FEATURE WEEK
Blues Ambassador Guy Davis is the son of actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. He is fluent in various styles of the blues and starred as blues legend Robert Johnson in an off-Broadway-stage production!
Guy Davis, g & voc
Exclusive in Switzerland!
At Jazzfestival Bern for the first time!
Guy Davis is a true ambassador of the blues. Guy has had his musical storytelling influenced by artists like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy, and his musicality from artists as diverse as Lightnin’ Hopkins and Babatunde Olatunji. However, there’s one man that Guy most credits for his harmonica techniques, and that man is the legendary Sonny Terry. Guy has spent his musical life carrying his message of the blues around the world, earning him the title “An Ambassador of the Blues”. His work as an actor, author, and music teacher earmark him as a renaissance man of the blues. Guy’s much-praised 1995 debut, “Stomp Down the Rider” marked the arrival of a major talent, earning acclaim for his deft acoustic playing, his well-‐traveled voice and his literate, yet highly accessible songwriting. He’s barely rested since then, taking his music to television and radio, as well as performing at theaters and festivals all over the world. His parallel careers – as a musician, an author, a music teacher and a film, television and Broadway actor – mark Davis as a Renaissance man, yet the blues remain his first and greatest love. Growing up in a family of artists (his parents were Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis), he fell under the spell of the blues at an early age. Guy’s one-man play, “The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed With the Blues”, premiered Off-Broadway in the ‘90s. He went on to star Off-‐Broadway as the legendary Robert Johnson in Robert Johnson: “Trick The Devil”, winning the Blues Foundation’s “Keeping the Blues Alive” award. Along the way he cut nine acclaimed albums for the Red House label and four for his own label, Smokeydoke Records; and was nominated for nearly a dozen Blues Awards. So it’s no wonder that Davis is reluctant to define himself simply as a bluesman. Guy’s new album, “Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train – A Look Back at Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry”, is an homage to these two hugely influential artists. Guy is continuing his mission to spread the blues around the world.
Concerts
Tue. 21.09. - Sat. 25.09.2021
Tuesday
Concert 10:00 p.m.
(Doors 9:30 p.m.)
Wednesday
Concert 7:30 p.m.
(Doors 7:00 p.m.)
Thursday
Concert 10:00 p.m.
(Doors 9:30 p.m.)
Friday
Concert 7:30 p.m.
(Doors 7:00 p.m.)
Saturday
Concert 10:00 p.m.
(Doors 9:30 p.m.)
Venue
Marians Jazzroom
Admission
One Concert CHF 42.-