Mavis Staples got no inauguration invite
January 11, 2009
Amazingly, Chicago’s soul music queen Mavis Staples has not been invited to Obama’s inauguration. She will speak and perform at noon Jan. 19 at a concert in celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall at Northwestern University in Evanston.
But she was disappointed she’ll miss the main event.
Mavis Staples will watch the inauguration of Barack Obama on TV from her Chicago home.
(Sun-Times file)
(Sun-Times file)
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“The Staple Singers went to the Kennedy, Clinton and Carter inaugurations. But I got over it,” she said earlier this week. “The New York Times invited me to do their party on Jan. 18, but I have to be in Evanston on the 19th.
“I’ll pop some popcorn and watch the inauguration from home,” she said. “I’ll be cool. Michelle [Obama] won’t have to come after me.”