Mavis Staples at Chevalier Theatre, February 21st
Mavis Staples returns with Sad and Beautiful World, her fifteenth solo album and a testament to fierce love in hard times. Produced by Brad Cook, the record spans seven decades of American music and features reinventions of classics alongside new material, with cameos from Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Jeff Tweedy, and more. At 86, Mavis continues the legacy she began with the Staple Singers, carrying forward her family’s spirit and her own unmatched moral authority shaped by the civil rights movement. Still touring, still evolving, and still choosing hope, she delivers these songs with the warmth, grit, and compassion that have defined her for more than seventy years. Sad and Beautiful World proves she’s not done making history—she’s leading us through it.