About Panayotis "Paddy" League

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Panayotis (Paddy) League is an author, composer, performer, and musicologist specializing in the traditional music, dance, and oral poetry of the Greek Aegean, Northeast Brazil, and the American South. Paddy serves as Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of the Center for Music of the Americas at Florida State University, where he teaches graduate seminars on creative ethnographic writing, cross-cultural music/language interfaces, musicological theory and method, and a variety of topical courses, as well as directing FSU’s Brazilian music ensemble, Grupo Jaraguá. He publishes widely in European, Brazilian, and North American journals and edited volumes, and his monograph Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora – an exploration of late Ottoman intercommunality in the music and dance practices of post-1922 Greek refugees and their descendants – was recently published by University of Michigan Press. Paddy performs and records Greek, Brazilian, Irish, and his own original music widely across Europe and the Americas, and his instrumental retro surf rock project, Echolocator, will be releasing its first album in late 2022. He was recently named a Master Artist by both the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Florida Folklife Program for his work teaching and performing the traditional music and oral poetry of the island of Kalymnos.