Performance Transcript: Opening Remarks for Kali Malone

Welcome to Northrop and our Liquid Music presentation of Kali Malone: All Life Long. We’re delighted you’re here.

Northrop is grateful that this performance is made possible by the Anna Heilmaier Foundation and the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Thank you, Minnesota voters. 

Northrop is part of a public university, rooted in Minnesota, and we are very proud of and thankful for our place here. We also acknowledge that this place that many of us call home has a complex and layered history, and not everyone has been served and treated equally throughout that history. Northrop is located on contemporary, traditional, and ancestral homelands of Dakota people. We seek to show up in support of Native and Indigenous Artists, and land acknowledgement is one of the ways we educate our campus and community about our relationships with the land and each other. 

We are also responding to our history by welcoming everyone to Northrop. You belong here, whether you’re here for the first time or have been attending for decades. Thank you for joining us.

We’re thrilled that this performance includes brass and choral students from the University of Minnesota School of Music, guided by faculty members Marissa Benedict and Matthew Mehaffey. You can find the performers’ names in the program.

Liquid Music invites exploration and discovery, and we are honored to present the Minnesota debut of Kali Malone — a singular talent who is paving her own course and opening doors for others: listeners, musicians and collaborators. For more opportunities to experience great art by compelling voices, please stay tuned for a summer announcement of our Fall 2025 programs.

With gratitude and excitement,
Kristen Brogdon and Kate Nordstrum