Join Omar Offendum and Ronnie Malley for a conversation exploring the history—both personal and musical—behind their collaboration. Musician and musicologist Bau Graves will host the discussion.
Part of the Seeking Resonance series in partnership with Indigo Arts Alliance.
ABOUT BAU GRAVES
James “Bau” Graves is an American musician, musicologist, and arts activist. He is the former executive director of the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. In 2005 his book on folk arts and community, Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose, was published.[1]
Graves and his wife Phyllis O’Neill co-founded the Portland, Maine, Center for Cultural Exchange in 1995 and were co-directors until fall 2005.[2][3] The Center for Cultural Exchange described itself as being “dedicated to advancing cultural understanding through arts and education programs in collaboration with diverse communities and artists in Maine and throughout the world.”[4]
TUESDAY, APRIL 15
2 PM at the Portland Public Library, Downtown Branch
Free, no registration
ACCESSIBILITY
ASL available upon request.
