Mavis Staples and Shemekia Copeland

Mavis Staples and Shemekia Copeland
January 15th, 2026 • 7:30 PM
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Mavis Staples is a once-in-a-generation artist. She’s both a Blues and a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; a civil rights icon; a Grammy® Award winner; a chart-topping soul/gospel/ R&B pioneer; a National Arts Awards Lifetime Achievement recipient; and a Kennedy Center honoree.

Shemekia Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. The multi-Grammy® nominee is beloved and honored worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty and humor of her revelatory songs, as well as for her winning, engaging personality.

Together, Mavis Staples and Shemekia Copeland represent the heart and soul of American roots music — voices that challenge, comfort and connect us all.

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