When Damon Albarn and the Honest Jon’s Revue perform at the Lincoln Center Festival on Saturday, the stage will be filled with a veritable supergroup consisting of talent from all around the world. In addition to Mr. Albarn — best known for his 1990s Brit-pop band Blur, as well as the conceptual comic-book collaborative Gorillaz and, most recently, the ambitious rock outfit the Good, the Bad & the Queen — the Revue includes an impressive array of African and North American musicians, among them Tony Allen, the longtime percussionist for the late Afro-beat pioneer Fela Kuti in the 1960s and ’70s; the master Malian musicians Afel Bocoum, Kokanko Sata, and Lobi Traore; New York jazz outfit the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, and singer-songwriters Candi Staton, Simone White, and Victoria Williams. The ages of the group’s members range from 30s through 60s, and represent an even broader palette of styles.

Indeed, one of the few things these musicians have in common is that they all have recorded for the London-based Honest Jon’s label, which Mr. Albarn co-founded in 2002. Perhaps that’s why, when The New York Sun spoke with a number of the players about a month prior to the concert, few were sure what they’d be playing at Lincoln Center.

“It’s like — I don’t know,” Ms. Staton laughed over the phone from her home in Stone Mountain, Ga. “We’re all singing or playing with somebody else — that’s the whole point. We’re lending each other our talents and whatever we find to do we’ll do. Who knows how it’s going to end up? I have no idea, but that’s the beauty of it.”

Even the Revue’s nominal leader wasn’t sure what was going to happen.

“I have no idea what it’s going to sound like at Lincoln Center,” Mr. Albarn said. He wasn’t being coy or evasive; in fact, the 40-year-old was cordially matter-of-fact and calmly confident, and noted that everything about the concert — from the set list to the arrangements to the instrumentation — would take shape during four days of rehearsals in London.

“We’re going to have a dinner after everyone arrives — it’s really exciting in that sense; it’s a genuinely global gathering,” Mr. Albarn said. “I think we’ve got some rough ideas, but it’s going to feature stuff that has been on Honest Jon’s over the last five years. People who don’t know the label are going to be surprised about how diverse that actually is.”

Since speaking with the Sun, the Honest Jon’s Revue has performed once, at London’s Barbican Hall on July 5. If that performance was any indication, eclecticism and the power of cross-cultural collaboration are what these shows are all about. For Mr. Albarn, that journey began with his label’s namesake — the Honest Jon’s record shop in London’s Notting Hill, a store launched by Jon Clare in the early 1970s and co-run by Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield, also Mr. Albarn’s label partners, since the late ’80s. The label came about after Mr. Albarn visited Mali in 2000 to support the international famine relief organization Oxfam. When he played the musical recordings he had made with Malian musicians for Messrs. Ainley and Scholefield, the trio decided to release the recordings as “Mali Music” in 2002.

“Way before that, I had been going to the Honest Jon’s record shop,” Mr. Albarn said. “I used to go in there for years and years and years, just slowly kind of plucking up the courage to ask the people behind the counter about a certain kind of music and could they recommend it. Do you know what I mean? That sort of relationship you have with certain places, where how you enter is not how you leave it. The record shop itself is an odyssey — a really good record should be like that.”

That spirit of exploration is what drew Ms. Staton into the Honest Jon’s fold. The 65-year-old Southern soul singer released a string of stirring albums in the 1960s and ’70s before turning to gospel music in the ’80s. About that time, club mixes of her late-’70s singles, such as “Young Heart Run Free,” kept her name afloat in Britain. She first met Mr. Ainley in the 1990s, when she performed on a BBC music television program. Mr. Ainley, as it turned out, was a fan of her early work for Rick Hall’s Fame Records in Muscle Shoals, Ala.

“He said I kind of got pushed to the back with Aretha [Franklin] and Gladys [Knight] and Chaka Khan and all those gorgeous women, those divas,” Ms. Staton said. “And he felt like I had got lost in the shuffle and he wanted to bring me out and help me reach the status that he felt that I deserved. And he came up with the idea of [releasing] 27 songs on one album of the old Candi Staton, all the way from 1969 to 1976.”

That compilation eventually led to Ms. Staton’s 2006 Honest Jon’s/Astralwerks release, “His Hands,” her first secular album in years and her return to Southern soul. Ms. Staton is even working on a follow-up, which she reports is due out this fall.

The guiding principle behind such Honest Jon’s releases obviously isn’t monetary — nobody turns to a 65-year-old soul singer in the hopes of connecting with pop’s fickle young audiences — nor is it the genre bandwagon. The label’s founders simply release music that captivates them, regardless of where it’s supposed to go in the record store.

“That’s what’s so brilliant about Africa and the rest of the world outside of our bubble,” Mr. Albarn said. “There’s such a wonderful variety, and it hasn’t been re-pollinated with other stuff and turned into all the same thing. It’s very unique, organic produce. I think it’s healthy to listen to other cultures. I just think that’s a healthy thing to do. We’re in a health-obsessed society, so listening to lots of different types of music and really being enriched by it can’t be a bad thing.”

Damon Albarn and the Honest Jon’s Revue perform Saturday at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall (10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Columbus Avenue at 65th Street, 212-875-5030).