![]() These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. For more information, please contact Pete Lally, 61. Spectacle Management is a full-service booking, marketing and promotion company with offices in Boston and Lexington. The building is handicapped accessible, and is fully air-conditioned. The Colonial styled building, with its grand auditorium, has provided the community with a year-round site for musical programming and popular events for eighty years and is home to the Lexington Symphony. The Cary Memorial Building, named for Isaac Harris Cary, was built in 1928 with a donation from his two daughters. The Cary Memorial Building is a historic structure located in Lexington Center at 1605 Massachusetts Avenue. Tickets for Mavis Staples at Cary Memorial Hall in Lexington on Friday, June 2 at 7:30pm are $49-$79 and are on sale now at by calling 61. Mavis takes us-not only there, but back, up, and through. King gave all those years ago, and we must be grateful that she is able to echo it for us now. Mavis is here, having weaved in and through all that fabric for all these many years, to show us that true joy lies simply in living for others. I want to leave you with some joy and love, and some don’t-forget-me songs.”Īnd with those words, her high note is revealed not as a pinnacle of ease and wealth but as a righteous life. I know I don’t have as much time on this Earth as I’ve already had, but I see it as saying, ‘Mavis has been here, y’all.’ Before I move on, I just want to leave some Mavis with you that you’re not used to hearing. “I’m living on a high note, I’m floating on air. “I think about this album as a new beginning in my career,” says Mavis. ![]() There is no persona she is, simply and untouchably, Mavis-and Livin’ on a High Note is the symphony of her life. Refusing to fade away, she continues to tour incessantly, remaining as vital, engaged, and true as always. Ward with songs by Neko Case, Justin Vernon, Nick Cave, Ben Harper, Tune-Yards, Aloe Blacc and others, the album serves as a summation and furtherance of her illustrious career. Now in her seventh decade, with the release of her new album Livin’ on a High Note (ANTI-), she is only gaining momentum. ![]() ![]() Weaving herself into the very fabric of gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, blues, rock, and hip hop over the last 60 years, this iconic singer has seen and sung through so many changes, always rising up to meet every road. She is an alchemist of American music, having continuously crossed genre lines like no musician since Ray Charles. Mavis Staples is living, breathing history. Her message of love and equality is needed now more than ever. Featuring powerful live performances, rare archival footage, and conversations with friends and contemporaries including Bob Dylan, Prince, Bonnie Raitt, Levon Helm, Jeff Tweedy, Chuck D, and more, Mavis! reveals the struggles, successes, and intimate stories of her journey. Mavis! is the first feature documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers. Mavis Staples fans can also catch the acclaimed documentary Mavis! on Thursday, June 1 at 7pm at the Lexington Venue, located at 1794 Massachusetts Avenue in downtown Lexington. She has embraced her evolution, absorbing new sounds and ideas, rising to meet the challenges of longevity and bringing her message of hope and positivity to new listeners, song after song, show after show. Tickets for Mavis Staples at Cary Memorial Hall in Lexington on Friday, June 2 at 7:30pm are $49-$79 and are on sale now at by calling 61. From the Delta-inflected gospel sound she helped create in the 1950s with her father, Pops, and her brother and sisters as The Staple Singers, to the freedom songs of the Civil Rights era, to pop radio stardom during the Stax era with hits “I’ll Take You There” and “Respect Yourself,” to The Last Waltz, to serving as muse to both Bob Dylan and Prince at the peak of their careers, to her GRAMMY®-winning partnership with fellow Chicagoan Jeff Tweedy, the one constant has been Mavis and her singular voice. Since her first recording at age 13 in 1954, Mavis Staples has learned from, worked with, and schooled countless legends, and has brought her own timeless talent to every performance. Lexington, MA – Spectacle Management is proud to present Mavis Staples at Cary Memorial Hall in Lexington on Friday, June 2 at 7:30pm.
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