Big Ears Festival | Knoxville, TN

SHABAKA

with Austin Williamson

DATE, TIME & VENUE DETAILS TBD TBD

Shabaka is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who came to prominence within the London scene playing bands Sons of Kemet, the Comet is Coming and Shabaka and the Ancestors. At the start of 2024, he announced a hiatus from the saxophone, and since then has been composing material for the various flutes he is engaged in studying. Collaboration and the idea of developmental change being central to artistic practice is the driving force behind Shabaka’s live sets, which are constantly evolving and striving to reflect an up-to-date account of a creative mind in flow.

BIG EARS
April 1 – 4, 2027
Knoxville, TN · USA

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