Advance ticket sales have closed. Day-of-show sales will be available at the doors starting 7:30 pm.

When: Sunday, October 30th - Doors Open at 7:30 pm - Show Starts at 8:00 pm

Where: Abbe Museum Backyard, 26 Mount Desert St., Bar Harbor, ME

Tickets: $25 for General Public - $20 for Abbe Museum Members* - Payment Optional for Tribal Community Members

About The Show

A suite for Indigenous resistance, the new album from Wabanaki bassist, composer, and songwriter Mali Obomsawin flies in the face of Western tropes that insist Indigenous cultures are monolithic, trapped in time. Instead, Obomsawin highlights centuries of clever adaptation and resistance that have fueled the art and culture of Wabanaki people. Written as a compositional suite, the album Sweet Tooth, coming October 28, 2022 on Out of Your Head Records, blends Wabanaki stories and songs passed down in Obomsawin’s own family with tunes addressing contemporary Indigenous life, colonization, continuity, love and rage. It’s at once intimately personal, featuring field recordings of relatives at Odanak First Nation, but also conveys a larger story of the Wabanaki people, stretching across the domain of their confederacy from Eastern Canada to Southern New England. In three movements, Obomsawin’s powerful compositions honor the Indigenous ability to shape great art from the harshest fires of colonialism. The compositions reveal threads that bind together blues, jazz, hymns, folk songs, and Native cultures, and foreground the breadth and continuity of Indigenous contributions to these genres. “Telling Indigenous stories through the language of jazz is not a new phenomenon,” Obomsawin explains. “My people have had to innovate endlessly to get our stories heard - learning to express ourselves in French, English, Abenaki… but sometimes words fail us, and we must use sound. Sweet Tooth is a testament to this.” Sweet Tooth is a celebration of Indigenous innovation, and an ingeniously envisioned debut for this composer-bandleader.

Please Note

The backyard entrance is located behind the museum, off School Street. There is NO ON-SITE PARKING, please review the Town of Bar Harbor’s parking information. If you have accessibility concerns, please contact the museum in advance. This is an outdoor event, please come dressed warmly. Limited general admission seating will be provided, and both seated and standing areas will be covered in case of inclement weather. All tickets are non-refundable. Advance sales end on Friday, October 29th at 11:59 pm. Day-of-show tickets will be available at the door.

*Abbe Museum Members will be emailed a coupon code in advance of the show. If you have just purchased a membership, please check your email receipt.