2025-2026 Season: Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott)
October 11 @ 7:30 pm
Chief Adjuah (trumpet/harp/vocals), Cecil Alexander (guitar), Ryoma Takenaga (bass), Ele Howell (drums), Morgan Guerin (sax/flute/keys/drum kit), Elena Pinderhughes (flute), Weedie Braimah (percussion). Lineup subject to change
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) is a two-time Edison Award–winning, six-time Grammy-nominated musician, composer, producer, and cultural leader. As Chief of the Xodokan Nation and Grand Griot of New Orleans, his artistry blends Afro-Indigenous heritage, ancestral ceremony, and forward-thinking innovation.
Adjuah’s takes a leap towards a nontraditional music style described as “increasingly infectious with repeated listens and marks yet another step forward for one of the most innovative artists of our time” by Glide Magazine. His latest album, Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning (2023), is his first release after reclaiming his name as a tribal leader and his first recorded release with his invented instrument the Adjuah Bow. This bow, a harplike, ancestral-inspired creation is a double‑sided hybrid of kora and ngoni, and a European Harp. Giovanni Russonello in The New York Times called his blend of vocals and ancestral percussion on this album “a paean to the legacy of Black Indian music”.
Expect a deeply immersive performance: Adjuah will weave together spiritual storytelling, original instrumentation, and a genre-defying journey through New Orleans, West African, and Maroon traditions… all of which are central to his ongoing mission of decolonizing sound and elevating ancestral expression.
—Giovanni Russonello review in The New York Times on Chief Adjuah’s album, Ancestral Recall
