Brendan Weaver
** Viva
Kalamazoo ** Peace & Mandolins
** "... all I want and all I need is
love..." **
Brendan Weaver
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Brendan Weaver, a fourth
generation Kalamazooan
with multi-ethnic roots, creates an eclectic blend
of folk rock, which reflects his focus on the values
of environmentalism, family, social justice, and inner
and outer peace. Brendan has a strong history in music,
studying piano from a very young age. He plays acoustic
and electric, and standard and octave, mandolins and
accompanies his music with vocals. Brendan’s
debut album, Mandocentric, was well received
during his release party at Ravenwood Coffee in Kalamazoo,
on 11 March 2006.
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Brendan’s interest
in social and environmental issues comes from the
strong influences of his grandmother, Kay McKinney.
This was the woman that shaped his life and taught
curiosity, a love for God and nature, and the necessity
of imagination. She always told stories of her adventures
in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the Pacific Northwest,
or her youth as a first generation American in early
twentieth century Montana. She exposed Brendan to
a much different ‘80’s, not populated
by sugar candies and fatty ice creams, ninja turtles,
the transformers, and Madonna’s conical wonder
bras, but one where natural honey always substituted
bleached cane sugar, big foot lived in the woods behind
her apartment, salmon quiche was their favorite dinner,
and St. Nicholas would visit every 6th of December.
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Currently Brendan lives
in Nashville, TN, and is a graduate student of historical
anthropology at Vanderbilt University. Brendan also
holds an MA and BA in anthropology from Western Michigan
University. His research interest is in the early
colonial period and focuses on labor in the rapidly
changing Americas. Over the past few years he has
had opportunities to conduct field work both in South
America and the Caribbean, particularly Peru, Bolivia
and Barbados.
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