LOLLISE (New York-Botswana) Live at Athletic Club and Social

Lollise is a multi-disciplinary artist from Francistown, Botswana, based in NYC. She shares her 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.In 2025 Lollise recorded on the Kronos Quartet’s rendition of Bob Dylan's “A Hard Rain” alongside Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Asha Bhosle, Willie Nelson, Allison Russell and many others. She has performed extensively in New York, from DIY community spaces to arts institutions including BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Public Records, BAM, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn Museum, Little Island Festival, Elsewhere and Symphony Space. She has toured the US opening for Ibibio Sound Machine and Rubblebucket and played at the Durchlüften 2025 Festival at Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Lollise has performed extensively in New York, from DIY community spaces to arts institutions including BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Public Records, BAM, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn Museum, Little Island Festival, Elsewhere and Symphony Space. She has toured the US opening for Ibibio Sound Machine and Rubblebucket and played at the Durchlüften 2025 Festival at Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Her music has been featured on Hearing Things, Pop Matters, KEXP, Rolling Stone, Bandcamp Radio, Bandcamp Daily, Okay Africa,and New Sounds with John Schaefer on WNYC radio. Online - R150 and R200 door