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 Welcome back, this week I speak with Thomas Lopez Jr. AKA Landback Baddie! Thómas was born and bred to be an activist. Having both parents deeply involved in the Chicano and the American Indian movements, Thómas has activism and community action in his blood. As a young adult, Thómas joined the Standing Rock encampment and like so many who were there answered the calling to carry on the torch for global indigenous rights, climate change awareness, and of course the land back mo...
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,...
