Live Music with Elexa Dawson
About this Event
Join us for an evening of music and stories from our friend Elexa Dawson. The Backroom Bar listening room is the ideal environment to focus on the music created by Elexa. We love and enjoy her music and we greatly appreciate her community based activism.
ABOUT ELEXA DAWSON: She is a practitioner of the soul. Her red-dirt honey vocals and rhythmic guitar style deliver a sound that hits home. Deeply connected to land, her themes center earth and community, and celebrate all relationships, from mother and child to friend and lover.
Elexa is a Citizen of the Potawatomi Nation in Oklahoma. She founded Good Way Gardens in Emporia, Kansas, a land-based arts organization providing a concert series and educational community garden. Elexa is the lead songwriter of the Kansas-based folk group, Weda Skirts.
Elexa’s latest release, Stay Put, reached #9 on the Folk International Chart, and #14 on the NACC Folk Chart. Wanderlust (2024) debuted at #11 on the Folk International Chart. Music is Medicine debuted Elexa’s solo career and won a Native American Music Award for Best Country Recording.
Elexa also serves as Folk Alliance Region Midwest's Board President, where she proudly contributes to the important work of promoting the folk music and dance community in the midwest. Elexa is a Kansas Touring Roster Artist, Music to Life's Juried Artist, and Mid-America Arts Alliance Interchange Fellow. Former fellowships include First Peoples Fund and Western Arts Alliance Native Launchpad. Elexa serves on the Lyon County Food and Farm Council, and on the Advisory Board for Matfield Green Works.
DETAILS for the evening
Doors at 6pm
Music at 7pm
Cover $15
THINGS TO KNOW:
We do NOT HAVE A FOOD TRUCK FOR THIS EVENT. You are welcome to bring your own dinner. We have some great food options within the NOTO district.
Compass Point, home of Dirty Girl Adventures, is a family-friendly environment; everyone is welcome. Youth 12 and under are FREE.
Compass Point is part of the NOTO Common Consumption Area. This allows you to purchase an alcoholic beverage from a licensed CCA vendor and walk through the Common Consumption Area. All drinks within the CCA MUST be in a branded cup from one of the licensed CCA vendors within the NOTO Arts District.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 16.40
