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Music, Race & Social Justice Visiting Artist Series

The MSU Denver Department of Music, with support from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, presents the Visiting Artist Series on Music, Race, & Social Justice. Organized by Dr. Elizabeth McLean Macy, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Faculty Fellow in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, this series highlights the work of BIPOC musicians, performers, and scholars.

Olmeca

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Music, Race, & Social Justice Visiting Artist Series
& Jazz & American Improvised Music Concert Series
presents
bilingual MC and multi-disciplinary artist
Olmeca

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
6:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
800 Kalamath, Denver

Olmeca is a bilingual MC and multi-disciplinary artist who helped continue to push Spanish-English Hip-Hop at a time when the industry said there was no market for it. He is part of Acid Reign, rooted in the world-renowned Project Blowed collective in South Central L.A.  He has been called “a shaman of the 21st century” (Complex Magazine) and “a Latinx musical genius that knows how to genre blend.” (Grungecake).

A Kennedy Center Artist Citizen Fellow, adjunct lecturer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, founder of Raow Raow, Action Lab board member, and touring performer with Speak Out, Olmeca has long bridged art, activism, and education.

After enduring profound loss between 2018 and 2023, he turned inward—healing through plant medicine, ceremony, and talking circles. That journey reshaped his purpose: to remain calm in the midst of chaos is to be in one’s true power. Returning to the stage, his performances invite audiences to confront darkness, celebrate resilience, and reimagine purpose as a collective struggle for dignity.

Past Music, Race, and Social Justice Visiting Artist Series Livestreams

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