Three-time GRAMMY-nominated artist Nai Palm
A unique and intimate performance from three-time GRAMMY-nominated artist Nai Palm, live in the NFSA Courtyard.
Three-time GRAMMY-nominated artist Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote) brings her soaring vocals and signature style to the NFSA Courtyard for this special performance.
Enjoy an autumn afternoon in the company of Nai Palm and Friends, with local brews on offer at the Church cafe and bar.
Program
4.00pm | key
4.45pm | SAMATAR
5.30pm | GLO
6.15pm | Nai Palm
Nai Palm
Nai Palm is a composer, instrumentalist, producer, vocalist and poet who approaches these self-taught disciplines with an intuitive, infectious grace, which has sent her on a journey to sculpt songs that have been received and treasured across the world. It is a world she has travelled many times over with her band Hiatus Kaiyote who, along with Nai Palm, have become household names since they first began playing together in Melbourne in 2011.
Hiatus Kaiyote broke internationally in 2012 with their first LP, Tawk Tomahawk, which was praised by simpatico musical travellers from Erykah Badu to Questlove to Prince, and embraced by DJs like the BBC’s Gilles Peterson, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Anthony Valadez (KCRW/Morning Becomes Eclectic). Their first R&B GRAMMY nomination, for their song ‘Nakamarra’, was followed by a second for ‘Breathing Underwater’, from their sophomore album, 2015’s Choose Your Weapon.
Still, their music defied categorisation: some called it ‘neo-soul’, others ‘future soul’; the band calls it, simply, wondercore. Their music found fans in hip-hop, sampled on songs by the Carters (Beyonce and Jay-Z), Kendrick Lamar, Anderson. Paak, Chance The Rapper, and Drake — with whom Nai Palm collaborated on his Scorpion album; and in jazz, when Robert Glasper invited the band to appear on his album of Miles Davis remakes, Everything’s Beautiful.
‘Hiatus Kaiyote’s music stretches and bends every parameter’
That spirit of blending began with Nai growing up in her mother Suzie Ashman’s Melbourne home, vibrating with the sounds of Motown and flamenco, African music and hip-hop. After her mother died of breast cancer, the 11-year-old Nai went to live with a foster family high in the Australian Alps. By the time the adolescent Nai found her way back to Melbourne, she had acquired three things: an abiding, spiritual connection to the land; an uncanny, self-taught mastery of two instruments, the guitar and her own voice; and the ability to write songs that were as complex as her influences.
The details
What: CHURCH Presents Nai Palm + Friends Live at the NFSA
When: Sunday 10 March 3pm to 7pm
Where: NFSA Canberra (Courtyard)
Cost: $50 Book tickets
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