Doug Adair ← THE MATRIX of FABULOUS DISCOVERIES

Doug Adair is within giant steps of artists around the planet, in reach of everybody everywhere per the same seemingly miraculous small-world principle which dictates that there are between most human beings on earth 6 or fewer degrees of separation...

...inside a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.

ˈmātriks - "source", from "mater", Latin for "mother". We're real mothers for ya!

Worldlines from Doug Adair: I'LL TAKE YOU THERE! ▶

Worldlines to Doug Adair:

I'LL TAKE YOU THERE! ▶

Outgoing curation by: The Artist

Who I Am & Where I Live

Name: Doug Adair
City: Salvador, Bahia
Country: Brazil
Hometown: Morton, Illinois, USA

Current News

What's Up? .These days I am splitting my time between Arlington, VA (up the hill from the Iwo Jima Memorial) and Salvador. I'm currently in Arlington and will head down to Salvador in February. I'm still writing songs and making shows while also providing business and non-profit consulting services in Brazil and the US. I've developed a show about Burl Ives (Burl and his wife Dorothy asked me to do this way back in 1975 when we we're together at WIU). The focus of the show is promoting the importance of music and cultural education and the songs in the show are about kindness, unity, humility, responsibility, integrity, diversity and democracy. To this point in time, we've been presenting the show in Brazil (where levels of polarization and disenfranchisement are quite similar to the US) but we're now in the process of making plans for some performances and video production for Brazilian Public TV in the Washington DC Region later this year. Burl was scheduled to go to Brazil in 1985 to present a show called the "Imagination Celebration" which featured young and deserving talent in each of communities / regions the show visited. Sponsored by the Kennedy Center and OAS, Burl was never able to make the trip to Brazil due to poor health so our show features 75-year old "Tio / Uncle Burl" and showcases unknown and known performers from the State of Bahia, both from urban and rural environments. We're also using the platform of "Tio / Uncle Burl" www.uncleburl.com to establish Brazil's first Community Foundation in the State of Bahia (80% of Bahia's population is of African descent and wide scale poverty continues to be an obstacle to success and sustainability). Unfortunately, there's a sad history of corruption and it's hard to find non-profits in Brazil that can meet standards for transparency and reliability. I've had some projects rejected by the Inter-American Development Bank and other funding sources in Brazil because the proposed recipient orgs couldn't pass the litmus test for reliably receiving and administering funds. We're working to create a "model" Community Foundation in Bahia which can be replicated across Brazil and Latin America.

My Life & Work

Bio: Doug Adair has carried real American music even further south than its origins, to the great cradle of another nation's musical origins: Bahia, Brazil.

Doug is proprietor of the legendary music spot Hot Dougie's Rendezvous in Salvador, Bahia.