Twin Cities resident, Davu Seru, started playing drums in 1985. At times he performs on cello, violin and (though  less frequently) soprano saxophone. He calls himself a jazz musician.

He's worked with numerous improvising musicians including Milo Fine, Andrew Lafkas, Jaron Childs, Charles Gillet, Anthony Cox, Wendy Ultan,

George Cartwright, Stefan Kac, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, David Boykin, and Nicole Mitchell . It's worth mentioning that he plays in the epic instrumental band, Take Acre, and (since people seem to privilege such facts) that he's also played with Europeans.

As a musician he's performed in local and national festivals, including Heliotrope (Minneapolis, 2003-2009), The Driftless Jazz Festival (Viroqua, WI, 2008), Twin Cities' Sur Seine Festival (2006), the Walker Art Center's Festival Dancing in Your Head (2004), the No-Net Festival of improvised music (Denver, 2002), the American Composer's Forum's Bamboo Fest (2001), and the Museum of Contemporary Art's Active Music Marathon (Chicago, 2000). 

He's been a curator of concerts series that featured jazz, European and American improvised music, in both Chicago and Minneapolis. Those were the "Early Friday Out-Sets" at Hothouse in Chicago (1999), and "Unum" at the former Gus Lucky's Gallery in Minneapolis (2000-01). 

He's working on a PhD in 20c. African American literature.

 Davu, his lovely wife Emily and son August, hold up in St. Paul, MN.

dseru01@gmail.com