On The Land: Black Belt Eagle Scout

Conversation and live music with Indigenous music artist Black Belt Eagle Scout aka Katherine Paul and BBES live drummer Camas Logue live from KP's ancestral homelands in Swinomish territory.

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Katherine Paul or KP is a Swinomish and Iñupiat musician and visual artist creating under the name Black Belt Eagle Scout. KP writes the foundation of her music on guitar, adding other instrumentation such as drums, bass, vocals, keys and percussion when recording and has put out two records thus far under the moniker of Black Belt Eagle Scout.

Camas Logue as a Klamath/Modoc/Yahooskin & Irish interdisciplinary artist who plays drums and guitar in Black Belt Eagle Scout’s live band. Camas has toured in the band internationally, playing live and in radio performances Camas has collaborated with BBES in the Loss and Relax 7” album, in which his painting, Swinomish Stinta, is the focal piece on the cover. He has also collaborated on various BBES merch designs including an intaglio print turned t-shirt design and line drawn sticker designs.

Featured on this broadcast are two live acoustic songs performed for this broadcast by BBES:
At The Party from the album At The Party With My Brown Friends
Soft Stud for the album Mother of My Children

Music featured at the end of the conversation by BBES:
My Heart Dreams from the album At The Party of My Brown Friends

This episode first aired May 10, 2021 for Broken Boxes on Radio Coyote, a project initiated by Raven Chacon and CCA Wattis Institute, on the occasion of Chacon's 2020-21 Capp Street Artist-in-Residency. Radio Coyote is currently produced by Atomic Culture and will transition to new programming on July 16, 2021. www.radiocoyote.org

This episode is now streaming on iTunes & Spotify

This conversation was hosted by Ginger Dunnill of Broken Boxes Podcast