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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
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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.
My Media
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC2VZH-3haHJiniVA3ULLv9A
- ▶ Website: http://www.uncleburl.com
- ▶ Website 2: http://www.orsbrasil.com
- ▶ Website 3: http://www.broadjam.com/DougAdair
- ▶ Website 4: http://www.youtube.com/user/DougAdair
Click to Listen on Spotify
- ▶ (Album/Podcast 1): http://open.spotify.com/album/4DYSJ06qEncuPgN0cJ4dnc
- ▶ (Album/Podcast 2): http://open.spotify.com/album/0KuwLPZEh6jGcgrdwQ6ARu
Contact Information
- Email: douglaseadair@gmail.com
- Telephone: +17039326667
- Whatsapp: +17039326667
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Address:
6066 LEESBURG PIKE
SUITE 200-B
Falls Church, VA, USA 22041
Clips
▶ Brazil has something called "jeitinho" (zhay-TEEN-you), the "little way". In a land where the official way is often impossible, people get things done by other means.
▶ The matrix is jeitinho. It allows splendid Brazilian musicians to be discovered and accessed from everywhere. But to work for the Brazilians, it has to work for everyone.
▶ All explained inside the dot-defined window immediately below (curated artists below this window)... from Brazil, with love!
This matrix is predicated on the fact that fame & fortune are not inextricably linked to talent, dedication, and even genius.
Brazil has something called "jeitinho", the "little way". In a country where the official way is so often impossible, people have to be creative. Do end runs around problems and powers-that-be.
The matrix is jeitinho. All explained inside the dot-defined window immediately below. Matrix encompassed artists below the window.