Drummer and bandleader Makaya McCraven sits down with Performing Arts Curator Philip Bither to discuss In These Times, an ambitious new musical suite co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center.
Border Crossings: Bridging Music and Movements with Makaya McCraven
"Drawing on all influences and letting them mix freely into new and unpredictable things—it might just be a political act in a time when our own borders are weaponized, both literally and rhetorically." Jeremy Gantz, contributing editor at the Chicago progressive political magazine In These Times, examines the music of Makaya McCraven, who debuts his new Walker-commissioned musical suite—also titled In These Times—in Minneapolis October 18.
