How to purchase a subscription package

This year, we’re pleased to introduce a new ordering process designed to make purchasing subscription packages easier for everyone. You may submit a subscription request form now! This online form will allow you to select your preferred performances and seating choices.

This performance is not available for subscription discounts, but can still count toward your total number of shows.

 For questions please visit our subscription info page or contact tickets@sonoma.edu.

Mavis Staples is still making music—and history—as one of the most recognizable voices in the world. She rose to fame as a member of her family’s band the Staple Singers, of which she is the last surviving member. She has been inducted into several halls of fame (blues, rock, and gospel) and holds multiple Grammys.

Known for her civil rights activism, her music shares powerful messages through her rhythm and blues roots and her expansive musical heritage.

More than seventy years after a high-school a cappella teacher tried and failed to change her singing style, Mavis Staples has one of the most recognizable voices in the world.

With the Staple Singers, Mavis helped create the literal soundtrack for the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, and opened for Martin Luther King, Jr. at his rallies. Mavis has spent a lifetime standing up for those people the most powerful among us would like to beat down.

This performance is not available for subscription discounts, but can still count toward your total number of shows.

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