With musical origins that began on a reservation in Washington, Black Belt Eagle Scout, originally scheduled to perform this month at BRIC House, will give our followers a special live acoustic concert on Instagram.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Katherine Paul, known as Black Belt Eagle Scout, wants everyone to know that “I want there to be more space for Indigenous artists, and I’m going to work really hard to try and have that … I’m not here for the white cis people. You can be a part of it, but you gotta sit down and let other people take the lead. That’s something I wish people knew about me before coming to my shows.” (Pitchfork)

Growing up on a small reservation in Washington State, Paul’s musical sensibility was initially informed by her Swinomish tribe’s drumming and singing traditions. A move to Portland took her music in a power chord-driven indie rock direction, though still guided by her indigenous identity and commitment to indigenous rights.

On her second album released on Saddle Creek Records, the critically-acclaimed At the Party with My Brown Friends (2019), Paul continues to celebrate and interrogate what it means to navigate this world as a survivor of generational trauma, and emphasizes community as a healing body. Before coming to BRIC, Paul toured nationally with Devendra Banhart.