Don't miss guy Davis in Cleere's Kilkenny tonight

‘The Bluesman’ Guy Davis makes a welcome return to Kilkenny city after playing to a packed house in Ryan’s at the first instalment of the AKA alternative Kilkenny arts festival back in 2015.
Guy will be in Cleere’s Theatre, Parliament Street, Kilkenny tonight at 9pm.
He is an absolute thrill live and this promises to be one of those intimate gigs that might well be talked about for years.
His first appearance in the Marble City was at the Kilkenny Roots festival almost 20 years ago.
Guy Davis has spent his musical life carrying his message of the blues around the world.
Gigging from the Equator to the Arctic Circle, he has eared 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.
What music and acting have in common, he explains; “is that I don’t like people to see the hard work and the sweat that goes into what I do. I want them to hear me and be uplifted.
“And I want some little eight year old kid in the front row to have big eyes and say, ‘Hey, I want to do that,” the troubador said.
Guy has had his musical storytelling influenced by artists like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy.
Diverse
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, by stealing and crediting from him everything that he could, and that man is the legendary Sonny Terry.
Guy Davis once said; “I like antiques and old things, old places, that still have the dust of those who’ve gone before us lying upon them.”
Blowing that dust off just enough to see its beauty is something Guy has excelled at for over 20 years of writing and performing.
It’s no wonder his reverence for the music of the Blues Masters who’ve gone before him has been evident in every album he’s ever recorded or concert he’s given.
He returns to Cleere’s on Friday. Tickets €15 on sale at Cleere’s and at Rollercoaster Records on Kieran Street.