Booking and details
Dates Fri, Jul 12, 2024
Tickets Free
Duration 5:30pm-7:30pm
Due to forecasted rain; this event will take place inside the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Great Hall
FREE Folger programming all summer long!
Bring your friends and join the Folger for relaxed summer evening with food, drinks, music, dancing, poetry, and more. It’s a chance to discover new artists and performers and explore the Folger’s galleries and gardens.
Join us for the first Folger Friday of the summer as we welcome acclaimed hip-hop and spoken word artist Kokayi for an evening of music and poetry.
Picnics are welcome on the Folger lawn and drinks will be available to purchase. Our exhibition halls will be open throughout the evening; timed-entry passes are recommended.
Kokayi
Kokayi is a preeminent Improvisational Vocalist, Author, Producer, GRAMMY-nominated musician, and multi-disciplinary fine artist is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow for Music Composition (the first emcee to be granted a Guggenheim for music composition), Halcyon Arts Fellow, and Nicholson Arts Fellow, has been a TEDxWDC presenter, speaking on “collaboration and the creative economy”. and has served as Artist in Residence at Music Meeting in Nijmegen, NL. He can be heard on over 60 titles spanning: Jazz, Hip Hop, Rock, and R&B. About his book “You Are Ketchup: and Other Fly Music Tales” (Globe Pequot) the Washington Post writes “written in a tone so conversational you can practically hear it in your ear, “You Are Ketchup” feels like a megadose of straight advice from a muso-mentor who’s been there. And, of course, Kokayi has been all over the place.”