Eli Fola Presents Healing Scapes with support from AnAkA
About This Event
Eli Fola Presents Healing Scapes is a jazz-rooted project that draws on afro house and afro tech rhythms. It appears at National Sawdust, where the hall’s precise acoustics suit its mix of improvisation and beat-driven structure and a practice that moves between bandstand language and club-informed production. The bill includes support from AnAkA, a rock/pop outfit whose compact, song-first sets and tight arrangements are built to hold shape alongside veteran acts.
About The Healing Scapes
*The Healing Scapes* is a live electronic DJ performance currently playing at National Black Theatre in Harlem, with Eli Fola among the featured performers. Built in real time from beats, loops, and shifting textures, it treats the theater as a listening room as much as a stage. In a city where electronic music often lives in clubs, its placement in a Black cultural institution quietly reframes the form as concert work and community practice. The most telling detail is its pace: it allows space, not just volume.
About the Artists
Eli Fola Presents The Healing Scapes
Eli Fola Presents The Healing Scapes is a New York City–based rock/pop artist and presenter whose work is frequently heard at National Sawdust. Their credits at the venue span collaborations and shared bills with artists including Britton & The Sting, Lola Kirke with Odetta, Black Belt Eagle Scout and Mato Wayuhi with Ailani, Wet, and Kaoru Watanabe’s *Bloodlines Interwoven*, as well as events like Huang Ruo’s NY premiere of *A DUST IN TIME* and the Friday the 13th Dance Party with DJs Eli Escobar and Cosmo.
Eli Fola
Eli Fola is a New York City-based performer who moves between DJ sets and rock/pop work. In recent appearances, they’ve brought a live DJ performance to National Black Theatre and a live rock/pop set to National Sawdust.
Eli Fola Presents Healing Scapes with support from AnAkA
Eli Fola presents Healing Scapes as a jazz-rooted performance project that also draws on afro house and afro tech rhythms, with support from AnAkA. In New York City, the work appears at National Sawdust, where the venue’s concert-hall precision suits its hybrid of improvisation and beat-driven structure.
AnAkA
AnAkA is a rock/pop group billed on heavy lineups, including a Starland Ballroom date with Death Angel, Vio-lence, and Incite, following overlaps on touring circuits that have also touched New York City rooms like Gramercy Theatre.