Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Mavis Staples lends her
"deep, husky contralto, at once devout and sensual" (New York Times)
to songs introspective and uplifting, from the gospel standards and
civil rights anthems she sang for decades, to wide-ranging pop music
born from collaborations with artists like The Band and Nick Lowe.
Staples performs selections from her latest recording One True Vine.
Her appearance is in association with the UC Berkeley's On the Same
Page program, marking the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech
Movement. This year the campus-wide On the Same Page program focuses
on the fiftieth anniversary of the Free Speech Movement. Students and
faculty will read Robert Cohen's Freedom's Orator, a biography of
Mario Savio, whose role in the FSM grew out of his activism for racial
equality in the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. Music was critical
to the movement—one more so than the Staple Singers, whose leader
Roebuck "Pops" Staples brought his family's talents to support Dr.
King. Today, legendary singer Mavis Staples carries the musical spirit
of the movement for justice and equality forward in her concerts and
albums.
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