Kaki King

Some guitarists play their instrument. Kaki King makes it do things no one knew it could.

Rolling Stone dubbed her “a genre unto herself,” and two decades into her career, the description still fits. The Brooklyn-based artist plays with an intricate fingerpicking technique that incorporates percussive tapping on the guitar body, turning a single instrument into a one-woman band. Her work is rooted in folk and blues, but it bends just as easily into post-rock, electronic loops, ambient textures, and pop sensibilities.

Her career has taken her everywhere. She’s shared stages with Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, contributed music to award-winning films including Sean Penn’s Into The Wild, and performed at the London Jazz Festival and Paris’s Les Femmes s’en Melent. Along the way, she’s created groundbreaking multimedia shows like The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body, where she used projection mapping on a custom-built guitar, and DATA NOT FOUND, an experimental theater piece exploring AI.

Her newest work, BUGS, opens her music to audiences of all ages, blending her signature guitar artistry with visual storytelling.

She doesn’t fit in a box. That’s the whole point. And on OUR stage, you’ll see exactly why she keeps redefining what one person and one guitar can do.