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 (Composer) Folger Theatre: debut; Mosaic Theatre Company: Young John Lewis. Artist: Kevin Hart’s Laugh at My Pain, Black Beauty, MTV’s Rebel Music, CNN Great Big Story, Nickelodeon, BET How I’m Living. Guggenheim Fellow Composition, Grammy Nominee Best Urban Alternative Song. www.kokayi.com, @kokayi