{"id":28748,"date":"2024-02-12T18:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T18:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/jackson-browne-michael-mcdonald-to-help-mavis-staples-celebrate-her-85th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T18:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T18:02:35","slug":"jackson-browne-michael-mcdonald-to-help-mavis-staples-celebrate-her-85th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/jackson-browne-michael-mcdonald-to-help-mavis-staples-celebrate-her-85th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Browne, Michael McDonald to help Mavis Staples celebrate her 85th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-12\/M_MavisStaplesBirthdayConcert_021224.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Courtesy of Blackbird Presents and Live Nation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jackson Browne<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Michael McDonald<\/strong>\u00a0are among the artists who&#8217;ve signed on\u00a0to help gospel and soul legend\u00a0<strong>Mavis Staples<\/strong>\u00a0celebrate her 85th birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Mavis Staples 85th: All-Star Birthday Concert\u00a0<\/em>will take place Thursday, April 18, at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles. Mavis, who actually turns 85 in July, will be performing at the concert,\u00a0joined by an all-star lineup that also features\u00a0<strong>Jeff Tweedy<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Chris<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Stapleton<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Grace Potter,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Black Pumas<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Hozier<\/strong>\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of last year, I was talking about retiring,\u201d Mavis shares. \u201cBut after sitting with it for a while, I stopped myself and thought, &#8216;Well, what would I do?&#8217; I asked the Lord, &#8216;Why am I still here? What do you want of me? Have you kept me around for a reason?&#8217;\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She adds, \u201cAnd the only reason I could see is to sing my songs. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m still here, and I&#8217;m looking forward to this show with my friends singing my songs, too!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the concert go on sale Friday, February 16, at 10 a.m. PT. A complete lineup can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blackbirdpresents.com\/concert\/mavis-staples-85th-all-star-birthday-concert\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">mavisstsaples85.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Blackbird Presents and Live Nation Jackson Browne\u00a0and\u00a0Michael McDonald\u00a0are among the artists who&#8217;ve signed on\u00a0to help gospel and soul legend\u00a0Mavis Staples\u00a0celebrate her 85th birthday.\u00a0 Mavis Staples 85th: All-Star Birthday Concert\u00a0will take place Thursday, April 18, at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles. Mavis, who actually turns 85 in July,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/jackson-browne-michael-mcdonald-to-help-mavis-staples-celebrate-her-85th-birthday\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}