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 On this weeks Episode, I speak to a fellow Wahzha’z Yatika Starr Fields. Yatika was in New York for the opening of his solo Exhibition, “Home as it Was” at Garth Greenan Gallery. The show features large scale shields, that are constructed out of tent and Tarp materials. His shields evoked a feeling of resilience and necessity. They were stunning to see in person. I highly recommend seeing Yatika’s Shields. Home as it Was is on view at Garth Greenan Gallery till April 12th...
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,...
