JUNE 3, 2022 | This week’s Beat Café features an interview with Don Paul, a multitalented singer-songwriter, producer, poet and social activist whose latest album is Love Over War. Beat Café is a weekly program that explores the music scene in New Orleans and the broader reach of Louisiana hosted by David Johnson, digital media editor for OffBeat magazine. The program is broadcast on WHIV 102.3 FM every Friday from 1 to 2 p.m. Central.

Paul has performed with Alex de Grassi and Hamid Drake in their GALLOP Trio and with Kidd Jordan, Oliver Lake, Hamiet Bluiett, Evan Parker, Henry Kaiser, Louise Robinson, India Cooke, Richard Howell, Miya Masaoka, Glenn Spearman and Dhyani Dharma. He’s written more than 20 books and has led or produced more than 20 albums, He’s the youngest winner of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University, at age 20 in 1971, and the former world record holder for running 50 kilometers (1982-1992). In the 21st century, he has co-founded the organizations Housing Is a Human Right, Rebuild Green, and Restore Wesley United. He was operations director for Common Ground Relief in New Orleans during seven months of 2006. He and his wife Maryse Déjean now co-direct Sticking Up For Children in Haiti and New Orleans.

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