Live Musical Performance

Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari

March 9, 2026
8:00 pm to 11:00 pm

A photograph of the musicians Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari, two women of color who are wearing decorative and powerful attire. They are standing in front of a doorway.
Naima Nefertari (at left) with Angel Bat Dawid. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artists.

Ars Nova Workshop presents Moki Cherry’s granddaughter, artist and musician Naima Nefertari, for a special performance with spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid at Solar Myth.

A powerful meditation on memory, mythology, and ancestral science, Dawid and Nefertari’s collaboration draws deep inspiration from the ancient astrological stone circle of Nabta Playa nestled in the remote deserts of Nubia. Their music blends spiritual jazz, celestial electronics, ancestral instrumentation, and storytelling to imagine futures grounded in ancient knowing.

Organized in conjunction with The Living Temple: The World of Moki Cherry.

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Event Information

March 9, 2026
8:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Solar Myth
1131 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

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$30.90 Public (including ticket fees)
Advance tickets encouraged | 21+ event

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About the Participants

Naima Nefertari—daughter of vocalist Neneh Cherry and granddaughter of artistic visionaries Don and Moki Cherry—is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician based in London. Her practice interweaves sonic and visual forms led by interests in repetition, improvisation, and the abstract relationships between language, symbol, image, and sound. Nefertari is part of the duo Exotic Sin with Kenichi Iwasa. She is an archivist and coordinator for the Estate of Moki Cherry and Cherry Archive.

For this special performance, she’ll be joined by the composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid. The potency, prowess, spirit and charisma of Dawid’s cosmic musical proselytizing has taken her from relatively unknown improviser to borderline ubiquitous performer in Chicago’s avant-garde in a relatively short span of time.

Support

This program is presented in partnership with Ars Nova Workshop.