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The Highmark Blues and Heritage Festival presents: 

Mavis Staples

“I’m the messenger,” Mavis Staples says on the eve of her 80th birthday. “That’s my
job—it has been for my whole life—and I can’t just give up while the struggle’s still alive.
We’ve got more work to do, so I’m going to keep on getting stronger and keep on
delivering my message every single day.”

That message—a clarion call to love, to faith, to justice, to brotherhood, to joy—lies at
the heart of ‘We Get By,’ Staples’ spectacular twelfth studio album and first full-length
collaboration with multi-GRAMMY Award-winner Ben Harper. Backed by her longtime
touring band, Staples breathes extraordinary life into Harper’s compositions on the
record, delivering roof-raising performances with both a youthful vigor and a
commanding maturity. The arrangements here are spare but weighty, matched by
Harper’s suitably lean and thoughtful production, and Staples seizes the opportunity to
showcase her remarkable and continued evolution as an artist, one still growing and
exploring more than half a century into her storied career. ‘We Get By’ is undoubtedly
a timely collection, arriving such as it does in the face of deep social divisions and
heightened political tensions, but like everything Staples touches, it’s also larger than
any particular moment, a timeless appeal to the better angels of our nature that’s
universal in its reach and unwavering in its assurance of better things to come.

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