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Past Events
Aba Diop & the Yermande Family
Join us at Kings Oaks for a celebratory and uplifting concert with a powerhouse ensemble of artists and global collaborators lead by master sabar percussionist Aba Diop.
6pm, Sunday, September 28, 2025
Kings Oaks
Aba Diop & the Yermande Family bring rhythm as medicine. Led by master griot percussionist, Aba Diop, their concerts center sabar—drums traditionally used for healing, celebration, and spiritual connection. Rooted in Senegalese rhythm and call-and-response tradition, the music blends polyrhythmic percussion, improvisational guitar, microtonal melodies, and soaring voice. The overall effect is deeply mystical, uplifting, and undeniably dance worthy.
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Art at Kings Oaks
October 4 – 20, 2024
Our 9th invitational group exhibition featured work by 27 artists from 10 countries in the historic barn and chapel, and garden, at Kings Oaks. Paintings, prints, drawings, collage, ceramics, sculpture, and textiles were on display. Curated by Alex Cohen and Clara Weishahn. Learn more about the exhibition and artists. Free admission.
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Art at Kings Oaks Preview Party
6:00 – 9:00pm, Monday September 30, 2024
Join us for a festive preview party on Monday, September 30. Collectors or those seeking a more intimate experience with the 2024 collection may preview the 9th Art at Kings Oaks exhibition in advance of the public opening.
Enjoy seasonal bites, beverages, and live samba and choro music by the joyful piano and percussion duo, Ernesto’s Club.
Sō Percussion and Caroline Shaw
August 23, 2024 at The Zlock Performing Arts Center at Bucks County Community College
In partnership with the Bucks County Community College Zlock Performing Arts Center, Kings Oaks hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw and innovative Sō Percussion for a residency culminating in a live performance at the Newtown campus.
Shaw and Sō’s electrifying program blends voice and percussion quartet as they share the music from their newest album ‘Rectangles and Circumstance‘. Co-written by Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion, the genre-blending songs use verses from nineteenth-century poems by Christina Rosetti, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and William Blake. Chamber music meets singer-songwriter storytelling in this extraordinary performance showcasing vital, expressive, and imaginative music-making.
See the music video for ‘Sing On’, from ‘Rectangles and Circumstance’, shot at Kings Oaks.
Philadelphia Screening of “David, This is Not About You: A Film About David Fertig”
May 13, 2024 at Landmark’s Ritz Five
Created by Alex Cohen
This hour-long documentary interview invites the audience into the company of painter David Fertig and his immersive studio in South Philadelphia. David, who lives without the internet and emulates the life of a 19th-century romantic, expounds on his contrarian existence and obsession with Napoleonic history, his influences and mentors, and his commitment to a life ruled entirely by art. Learn more
Gregory Kaplan Duo
August 21, 2023
Art at Kings Oaks presents a live-recorded concert performance by Australian flutist Catherine Gregory and American pianist David Kaplan in the chapel at Kings Oaks. The duo will perform an hour-long selection of music from their new album, “Vent”, from compositions by Sergei Prokofiev to Gabriela Lena Frank and David Lang. This performance will be recorded live by Four/Ten Media. Learn more
The Crossing at Kings Oaks – FARMING
June 22 – 25, 2023
The Crossing, Philadelphia’s Grammy-Award winning chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally, returns to Kings Oaks to present a world premiere by Ted Hearne for 24 singers, electric guitars, keyboards, percussion, and large, cultivated field with Rohan Chander, Viva DeConcini, John Grecia, Taylor Levine, Clara Warnaar, and Ron Wiltrout. Learn more and See photos
Trio Mediæval at Kings Oaks
April 12, 2023
An intimate and transportive one-night musical event in the chapel at Kings Oaks with the Grammy-nominated choral group Trio Mediæval. Members Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, and Jorunn Lovise Husan will perform a selection of early music, Scandinavian folk songs, and contemporary compositions. This unique and informal event will include conversation and light refreshments. Learn more and See photos
The Crossing at Kings Oaks – Walking the Farm: A Progressive Concert
September 17-18, 2022
Based on the “progressive dinner” model, this concert takes us to five stations around bucolic Kings Oaks Farm: the barn, the creek, the old chapel, the field, the garden. At each, we commune, sharing locally sourced bites, local beers and wines, and a choral work inspired by land and our relationship to it. A new work from George Lewis is joined by previous commissions of Kirsten Broberg and David Shapiro and a thoughtful setting of a Czeslaw Milosz poem by Latvian Peteris Vasks. Conducted by Donald Nally. Learn more and See photos