This weekend its Mavis Staples at Discovery Green celebrating the legacy and evolution of jazz in Houston. This is a bonus Series Spectacular concert featuring theacclaimed gospel and R&B singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples with an opening performance by rising star and Kinder 
HSPVA graduate, Marcos Varela.
The Jazzy Sundays in the Parks collaboration was initially planned for Spring 2020 and announced in February 2020. All performances, including Mavis Staples, were then postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Each park will follow local guidelines concerning COVID-19 protocols.
Mavis Staples now in her eighties was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in back in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.
Staples began her career with her family group in 1950. Initially singing locally at churches and appearing on a weekly radio show, the Staples 
scored a hit in 1956 with "Uncloudy Day" for the Vee-Jay label. When Mavis graduated from what is now Paul Robeson High School in 1957, The Staple Singers took their music on the road. Led by family patriarch Roebuck "Pops" Staples on guitar and including the voices of Mavis and her siblings Cleotha, Yvonne, and Pervis. The Staples family were called "God's Greatest Hitmakers".
By the mid-1960s The Staple Singers, inspired by Pops' with a close friendship with Martin Luther 
King Jr., became the spiritual and musical voices of the civil rights movement. They covered contemporary pop hits with positive messages, including Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and a version of Stephen Stills' "For What It's Worth".
