Tuesday, October 1 at 7:30pm

Monica O’Connell, Curtis and Cake

South by Midwest: How claiming aspirational lineage has helped me navigate a life of Music, Cake and Wonder

Monica holds a PhD in Ethno-musicology from NYU, and is the former Exec. Director of Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College, Chicago. She learned the importance of food and hospitality from her mother and grandmother, whom she shared “Curtis (Mayfield) & Cake” when she would visit her. She has studied Black and Southern foodways all her life.