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Doc MacLean at Old Church Theatre
November 9 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
$25.00
Doc MacLean is a weathered, wily, but infinitely likeable storyteller/performer. Writing from the dark side of the blues highway, Doc’s distinctive vocals and bare fingers National guitar plot an intense, emotional remapping of contemporary Delta blues and roots music.
It’s a career built on hard travel and performance. Early roots in Mississippi. Chicago. Atlanta. Canada. Toronto. Months and years spent living in cars, sleeping on floors, couch surfing. Repeat appearances at some of America’s best folk and blues venues. A lifetime spent on the Blues Highway with some of its most significant artists.
Long ago, MacLean established his annual, 100 plus show, National Steel Blues Tour to play all parts of North America. In the process, the Tour itself became legendary. In recent years, the Tour has reached Africa, where Doc now spends the majority of his time.
Doc continues as a blues vagabond, travelling most of the year and writing from the dark side of the highway. A songster from the delta tradition, he explored and resided in the American rural south at a time when it was much less visited than it is today, and had mentors like Son House, Peg Leg Sam, and Sam Chatmon.