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Saturday, June 8, 2024
Vance Gilbert
Vance Gilbert has travelled the world, sharing stages with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Shawn Colvin, and George Carlin. He is a performer who defies stereotype: “I’m Black, I sing, I play an acoustic guitar, and I don’t play the blues,” he says. Dirty Linen describes him simply as “among the quintessential musical poets.”
When The Opening Doors Project kicked off its online concert and conversation series in 2021, the very first person host Alastair Moock called was Vance. “I knew I needed a friend to help me learn how to do this,” he said at the time. Three years later, Opening Doors is thriving and was thrilled to reunite these two old friends at The First Congregational Church of Reading.
Photography by Paul Locke
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