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Mavis!

Thu, Nov 19 / 7 pm
Fri & Sat, Nov 20 & 21 / 7 pm
Sun, Nov 22 / 3 pm
Wed, Nov 25 / 7 pm
Thu & Fri, Nov 26 & 27 / 9 pm
Sat, Nov 28 / 3 pm
Directed by Jessica Edwards
2015, USA, 80 min

Gospel/soul music legend and civil rights activist Mavis Staples began her career singing in the Southern gospel circuit in the 1950s and worked with the legendary band The Staple Singers. Mavis! is a terrific new documentary which explores her roots growing up on Chicago’s south side starting out as a singer in local Chicago churches and then going on with the band to record chart topping hits “I’ll Take You There”, “If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me) and “Respect Yourself.” With rare archival footage from TV performances and live concerts the film also features interviews with the late Julian Bond, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Tweedy and country artist/music historian Marty Stuart.

 

Reviews

Wildly compelling and gregarious with a voice that booms like thunder. Mavis! is without a doubt, the living, breathing, heart-pumping definition of an exclamation point, radiating a charisma and earnestness so vivid and loud that it nearly knocks you out of your chair. – REEL GEORGIA
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