This Friday: Grammy-Nominated Artist Leads Present Music Season Finale at MAM
Concert offers eclectic exploration of home, heritage and identity
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MILWAUKEE, WI — Present Music welcomes GRAMMY-nominated composer, flutist, and vocalist, Nathalie Joachim, for their season finale at Milwaukee Art Museum June 5. Joachim will lead a program of three contemporary works that explore themes of home and identity.
Joachim brings her acclaimed 11-song project, Ki moun ou ye, which she sings in English and Haitian Kreyòl in addition to playing the flute and live electronics. The Philadelphia-born artist taps into her family roots in rural Haiti to offer a layered meditation on identity and belonging.
These themes also carry through the two works complementing Joachim’s performance:
- inti figgis-vizueta‘s Form the Fabric offers a unique, improvisational experience exploring home through the lens of threads that bind together to form the fabric of both the physical and spiritual world.
- Marcos Balter‘s we carry our homes within us, which allows us to fly! evokes an Afro-Brazilian religious chant to explore home as something portable, shaped by migration and memory.
Milwaukee Art Museum will host and invites ticket buyers to enjoy their Haitian art collection – one of the most significant collections in the world – and Currents 40: Widline Cadet, a new photography exhibition examining Black diasporic life. Beginning at 5:30 p.m., ticket buyers can explore the galleries with Museum staff and cultural experts offering context and insight.
Event Details
Nathalie Joachim performs with Present Music
Milwaukee Art Museum | 700 North Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee
June 5, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
5:30 PM: Museum doors open, explore Currents 40: Widline Cadet and the Museum’s world-renowned Haitian art collection. Cash bar.
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$70 | PREFERRED SEATING
$38 | GENERAL SEATING
$18 | STUDENT SEATING
$25 | ARTIST SEATING
Concert Sponsors
Karen Plunkett & James Phillips, Laskin Family Foundation
Presented in partnership with Milwaukee Art Museum and their exhibit, Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery
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