It’s the beginning of a new week and the world is your oyster with events from Life Be Lifin’ Starring Monét X Change to Joel Kim Booster: Rude Little Pig and from American Strings: An Evening with Black Belt Eagle Scout to Team Dresch 30th Anniversary Celebration. Check out our January events guide for a glance at the rest of the month.
WEDNESDAY
LIVE MUSIC
American Strings: An Evening with Black Belt Eagle Scout
Mercury contributor Jenni Moore writes: “Portland’s Katherine Paul is the queer and Indigenous musician behind the Black Belt Eagle Scout moniker. In 2020, Paul made the journey from Portland back to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Reservation, where she grew up, about 20 minutes south of Anacortes, Washington along the Skagit River. That’s where she eventually became a jingle dress dancer—wearing traditional powwow regalia made with 365 tobacco can lids curled into cone-like shapes, and sewn closely together with ribbons. On her 2023 album The Land, The Water, The Sky, Paul serves as a storyteller over the course of 12 tracks, evoking feelings of deep sadness, but also joy and hope, as Paul remembers the land, wisdom, knowledge, and traditions passed down by her ancestors—and weaves those inspirations in with her grunge and riot grrrl sounds.” She will be joined by ethnomusicologist and public historian Kelly Bosworth for a conversation about her artistic process, which will be followed by an intimate performance. AUDREY VANN
(Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, Beaverton)
