Pop-up Musical Performance

Shabaka

March 25, 2026
12:30 pm to 1:00 pm

A photo of the musician Shabaka Hutchings, a Black man with a flat cap and a flute. He is seated outside on broken pillars of concrete.
Shabaka Hutchings. Photo credit: Joseph Ouechen.

Please join Ars Nova Workshop for a special in-gallery performance by the extraordinary British multi-instrumentalist Shabaka.

Through his expansive solo work—and landmark projects including Sons of Kemet, Shabaka and the Ancestors, and The Comet Is Coming—Shabaka Hutchings is widely regarded as one of the UK’s most influential musicians. Over the past decade, he has fundamentally reshaped global perceptions of British jazz and experimental music, moving fluidly between jazz, electronic, spiritual, and diasporic traditions while opening new pathways for creative music worldwide.

Shabaka’s next chapter arrives with the announcement of his new solo album Of The Earth, released March 6, 2026 via the newly formed Shabaka Records. Ars Nova Workshop is thrilled to present Shabaka at this moment of transition and renewal with performances that promise to be immersive, exploratory, and deeply attuned to the spirit of becoming that defines his work.

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

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Event Information

March 25, 2026
12:30 pm to 1:00 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Eighth Floor Gallery

Included with general admission
Free (suggested $10 donation)

Tickets

About the Participants

A profile portrait of the musical artist Shabaka, a Black man in a flat cap, glasses, and a scarf. He is pictured outside with a warm-toned cloud behind him.

Shabaka Hutchings is widely regarded as one of the UK’s most influential musicians and a defining figure in contemporary British culture. In his solo work, Shabaka’s music reflects a deepening focus on breath, embodiment, and personal authorship. His 2026 album Of The Earth, written, performed, produced, and mixed entirely by Shabaka, marks a pivotal moment in his artistic evolution. Where earlier projects explored collective improvisation and a withdrawal from familiar forms, this work represents integration—uniting rhythmic propulsion, textural depth, and melodic openness within a singular creative vision. Across all his work, Shabaka’s music is driven by motion—physical, historical, and diasporic—tracing connections between movement, memory, and sound. Unconcerned with genre and grounded in intent, his practice continues to evolve as a deeply embodied form of creative expression.

Learn more at shabaka.world

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Presented in partnership with Ars Nova Workshop.