$35 General Admission Tickets available at the door. Dew Drop Inn Revival presents  GROOVE CITY 2024  Night V featuring  BOBBY RUSH:  An Intimate Evening of Stories & Songs    During his renowned stage show Bobby Rush frequently jumps high into the air, arms spread and legs tucked, only to land gracefully and return without a hitch to his dazzling routine. It’s a move you might expect at a contemporary R&B show, but it’s downright shocking when you realize that Rush is in his late 80s. “I never thought I would be here this long,” says Rush. “I was 83 years old before I won a Grammy, but it’s better late than never. I laugh about it, but I’m so blessed and I surely never thought I’d be making a living doing what I’m doing. I’m not just an old guy on my way out.” Hardly. Rush’s busy schedule includes headlining European festivals with his band and solo programs at venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, and he just recorded an album of brand new material, "All My Love For You," coming out via his own label Deep Rush Records in collaboration with Nashville-based Thirty Tigers. Over the last several years he’s won a second Grammy, re-recorded his 1971 hit "Chicken Heads" together with his old friend Buddy Guy and young blues star Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, and written a critically acclaimed autobiography, "I Ain’t Studdin’ You: My American Blues Story." That story began in rural Homer/Haynesville, Louisiana, where Rush—born Emmett Ellis, Jr. —grew up on his family’s farm picking cotton, tending to mules and chickens, and living in a home without electricity nor indoor plumbing. He built his first guitar on the side of the family’s house out of broom wire, nails, bottles and bricks. The blues, Rush recalls, provided “an escape from the cotton fields. You’d go out on Saturday night to the juke joints, but then on Monday morning you’d go back into the cotton fields to work for your bossman.” An eternally youthful Rush was even able to play himself in the 1970s in Netflix’s 2019 hit biopic "Dolemite is My Name" in a scene with Eddie Murphy. And the recognition keeps coming. In addition to his two Grammy wins (and six nominations), he’s in the Blues Hall of Fame, has won 16 Blues Music Awards (among 56 nominations), and there’s currently a musical in development called "Slippin’ Through The Cracks" with sights on Broadway, recently co-written by Rush and playwright Stephen Lloyd Helper, who co-wrote the 7x Tony- nominated musical Smokey Joe’s Café celebrating the songs of Lieber and Stoller. Rush is among the pioneering artists who performed here at the legendary Dew Drop Inn Hotel & Lounge during its mid-century hey day. Join us tonight as Bobby returns to the Dew Drop stage for the first time in more than 50 years for his exclusive performance during New Orleans Jazz Fest week 2024!   7:00pm Doors  |  8:00pm Show  21+