Gentleman Brawlers

When Brooklyn collective Gentleman Brawlers performs, it’s more than a concert: It’s an electrifying experience. Led by creative duo Becca Fox and Matt Walsh, the group channels musical inspo Talking Heads with their distinct brand of Afrofunk and indie dance music. 

Through a sonic blend of disco-based horn lines, sticky highlife guitar, and polyrhythms from West Africa, Trinidad, and Brazil, GB’s live shows ignite a community-based, improvisational energy; in studio, they will often reimagine their songs through an EDM lens. Whether the audience is on the dance floor or pressing play, Gentleman Brawlers loves to engage an audience, and the audience loves them right back. 

Acclaimed by the BBC’s Tom Robinson, NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest, and WNYC’s The Greene Space, GB has opened for Grammy artists Fantastic Negrito, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Cimafunk and performed at Bryant Park’s Dance Party, Perelman Performing Arts Center, Pier 1/Summer on the Hudson, Dumbo’s Live at the Archway, and The Public Theater’s Summer Block Party.

Lollise

Lollise is a multi-disciplinary artist from Francistown, Botswana, based in NYC. She shares her own bold Afro-futurist pop sound, rich with layers of kinetic, danceable percussion. Creating hybrid songs for this moment, she takes influence from the music she grew up with – Setswana and Kalanga folk songs, ’80s and ’90s South African electronic bubblegum and kwaito, Congolese soukous and Zimbabwean sungura. Using sound, color and movement, Lollise tells stories in real and imagined worlds that are multidimensional and nuanced, historical and futuristic. She performs with a potent energy and commitment to the music, in body and in spirit.

Lollise is a multi-disciplinary artist from Francistown, Botswana, now based in NYC, crafting a bold Afro-futurist pop sound built for motion. Her hybrid songs pulse with kinetic, danceable percussion and draw from the music she grew up with—Setswana and Kalanga folk songs, ’80s/’90s South African electronic bubblegum and kwaito, Congolese soukous, and Zimbabwean sungura. Through sound, color, and movement, Lollise creates vivid stories in real and imagined worlds—multidimensional and nuanced, historical and futuristic. She brings potent energy and full-bodied commitment to the Lobby Stage, performing in body and in spirit.