Send us a text We share a candid, funny, and deeply rooted conversation with Oscar-nominated composer and bassist Mali Obomsawin, tracing a path from Western Maine to Indigenous jazz lineages, archival repatriation, and a pedalboard moment with Yo-Yo Ma. Music, memory, and sovereignty braid into songs that carry both grief and lift. • identity as Abenaki Wabanaki and citizen of Odanak First Nation • Indigenous jazz history from Mildred Bailey to Oscar Pettiford and Don Cherry • fiddle camps,...
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Send us a text We share a candid, funny, and deeply rooted conversation with Oscar-nominated composer and bassist Mali Obomsawin, tracing a path from Western Maine to Indigenous jazz lineages, archival repatriation, and a pedalboard moment with Yo-Yo Ma. Music, memory, and sovereignty braid into songs that carry both grief and lift. • identity as Abenaki Wabanaki and citizen of Odanak First Nation • Indigenous jazz history from Mildred Bailey to Oscar Pettiford and Don Cherry • fiddle camps,...
Send us a text This week I speak with Chyana Marie Sage, Chyana is an award-winning Cree, Metis, and Salish Poet, Author, and model. She is the first Indigenous graduate from Columbia University’s MFA in Creative/Non Fiction. Chyana was the first person in her cohort to become a published author. Her Debut gift to us all is her memoir Soft as Bones . It is an intricately woven story about her life growing up as a middle sister in an abusive household. She intertwines her story of pain, r...
Let's Have a Powwow
Send us a text We share a candid, funny, and deeply rooted conversation with Oscar-nominated composer and bassist Mali Obomsawin, tracing a path from Western Maine to Indigenous jazz lineages, archival repatriation, and a pedalboard moment with Yo-Yo Ma. Music, memory, and sovereignty braid into songs that carry both grief and lift. • identity as Abenaki Wabanaki and citizen of Odanak First Nation • Indigenous jazz history from Mildred Bailey to Oscar Pettiford and Don Cherry • fiddle camps,...
