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Due to shifts in weather, we must cancel today’s BAM Live at Fort Greene Park performance. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and hope you can join us tomorrow for Taylor McFerrin featuring Big Yuki and J. Hoard’s performance.

BAM is thrilled to welcome Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah [formerly Christian Scott] to kick off this year’s festival. The six-time Grammy-nominated trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer is also a designer of innovative technologies and musical instruments. New Orleans-raised and Berklee-trained, he is founder and CEO of the Stretch Music app company and record label and Chieftain of the Xodokan Nation of the maroon tribes of New Orleans. He is the grandson of Big Chief, Donald Harrison Sr., and the nephew of jazz innovator and legendary saxophonist-composer, Dr. Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. Since 2001, Adjuah has released 13 critically acclaimed studio recordings, four live albums, and one greatest hits collection. He is widely regarded as the progenitor of the Stretch Music sound, which he describes as an attempt “to stretch—not replace—jazz’s rhythmic, melodic and harmonic conventions to encompass as many musical forms/languages/cultures as we can." Catch Adjuah on our stage Saturday, October 1 and at Blue Note Jazz Club on West 3rd Street in NYC November 14–17.

Philly / LA-based artist Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) combines social issues with a visceral blend of hardcore electronics and her intense poetry, taking influence from punk, hip-hop, jazz, soul, and other genres. She is a co-founder of the Black Quantum Futurism artistic and literary collective and has drawn praise for her recent albums Black Encyclopedia of the Air and Jazz Codes.