Mali Obomsawin

APPEARING @ MANHATTAN MARATHON AT NUBLU

Friday, January 10, 2025, 9:30 PM

Mali Obomsawin is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and a citizen of Odanak First Nation (W8banaki). She is a bassist, composer, improviser and vocalist whose work spans from jazz and roots music to film scoring, teaching, and shoegaze.

Mali is currently touring with her band Deerlady, now supporting their latest release “Greatest Hits” (2024); the free-jazz band she leads under her own name, and the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band. Mali’s score on the highly anticipated documentary Sugarcane (Nat Geo) directed by Julian Brave Noisecat and Emily Kassie and premiered worldwide in August 2024.

Over the years Mali has been lucky to work with notable musicians including Esperanza Spalding, Taylor Ho Bynum, Dave Holland, Angelica Sanchez, Kris Davis, Billy Hart, Peter Apfelbaum, Craig Harris, Bill Cole, Althea Sully-Cole, Tomas Fujiwara, Mike Formanek, and more.