22 Jul Palm Arts: McArthur “Genius Grant” Recipient Jad Abumrad on “How to Talk to Humans,” 7/24!
Palm Arts 2024/25 season opener: “An Evening with Jad Abumrad,” creator & former host of NPR’S Radiolab. Join Jad on “How to Talk to Humans,” with “Meet & Greet” before Main Stage event.
Assigned seating: $55 per seat; $75 for seat in front rows. The latter includes the “Meet & Greet” at 5:15pm. Doors at 6pm; talk, 7pm.
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Jad Abumrad, courtesy Lizzy Johnston.
Jad Abumrad is the creator and former host of Radiolab, a public radio program broadcast on nearly 600 stations across the nation and downloaded more than 12 million times a month as a podcast. Abumrad hosts ”Everything. Together. Radio”: on Apple Music hits. Each episode offers a kaleidoscopic mix of uptempo, electro, dance, funk, hip-hop, experimental noise, soul, and everything in between.
Abumrad employs his dual backgrounds as composer and journalist to create what’s been called “a new aesthetic” in broadcast journalism. He orchestrates dialogue, music, interviews and sounds into compelling documentaries that draw listeners into investigations of otherwise intimidating topics, such as the nature of numbers, the evolution of altruism, or the legal foundation for the war on terror.
Abumrad won three George Foster Peabody Awards and, in 2011, he was honored as a MacArthur Fellow (also known as the “Genius Grant”). The MacArthur Foundation website explains: “Abumrad is inspiring boundless curiosity within a new generation of listeners and experimenting with sound to find ever more effective and entertaining ways to explain ideas and tell a story.”
Abumrad also created and hosted three seasons of ”More Perfect,” a series about untold stories of the Supreme Court, which The New York Times called “…possibly the most mesmerizing podcast.”
And, in 2019, Abumrad created “Dolly Parton’s America,” (along with Audio’s Shima Oliaee), a Peabody Award-winning nine-part series that explores a divided America through the life and music of one its greatest icons.
In addition to his radio gig, Abumrad continues to work as a composer and remixer and is currently hosting a radio show on Apple Music.
In April 2022, Abumrad began a joint appointment at Vanderbilt University as a Distinguished Research Professor of Cinema and Media Arts and of Communication of Science and Technology at the College of Arts and Science. He will also have an advisory role on Vanderbilt’s Communications and Marketing team.
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