September 29 performance also features Charles Gaines Collective 
with Black Nile and Devin Daniels, stage design from Lauren Halsey 

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WHAT:
The LA Phil announces Flea to join the lineup of artists for emajendat at the Hollywood Bowl. Following the March 2026 release of his jazz solo album debut Honora, the acclaimed Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist and musician joins a lineup featuring Erykah Badu, The Alchemist, DJ Pee .Wee (Anderson .Paak) and Charles Gaines Collective with Black Nile in performance on a staged designed by renowned artist Lauren Halsey.

WHO:
Announced today: Flea
Previously announced: Erykah Badu, The Alchemist, DJ Pee .Wee (Anderson .Paak), Charles Gaines Collective with Black Nile and Lauren Halsey

WHEN:
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 8PM

WHERE:
Hollywood Bowl
2301 Highland Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90068

For more information visit:
https://www.hollywoodbowl.com/events/performances/4843/2026-09-29/lauren-halseys-emajendat-erykah-badu-and-the-alchemist

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TICKETING
Tickets for the Hollywood Bowl 2026 summer season are currently available online at hollywoodbowl.com, via phone at 323 850 2000, or in-person at the Hollywood Bowl Box Office. Programs, artists, prices, and dates subject to change. Ticket limits may apply. For additional information, please visit: http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/ 

For additional information, please visit: http://www.hollywoodbowl.com

ABOUT FLEA

Throughout the multi-decade history of Red Hot Chili Peppersfrom the L.A. band’s hard-grooving early days celebrating George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic through its long run of chart-topping singles and platinum albums, from shows in scrappy punk clubs to headlining stadiums and international festivals—there were always other sounds running through founding bassist Flea’s head.

Among them: The trumpet. Played by teenaged Flea, with what he recalls as strong tone and limited technique. And bebop, played at blazing tempos by his stepfather and his cronies in the living room of his house.

“It blew me away as a kid. I remember while they were playing, I’d be rolling on the floor, laughing in ecstasy. I couldn’t believe—could not believe—they could do this. It was a miracle."

Flea describes himself as someone who’s rooted in the present and tuned to emotional intuition; whenever these sounds from his formative years returned, he took notice.

“I always wanted to play the trumpet again,” Flea says. “But we ended up making all these hit records and doing what we did, and it started to seem impossible. I’d try it for a few months, and then I’d just be too overwhelmed with Chili Peppers and life, just the hectic, hectic pace of everything.

Three years ago, Flea recalls, this began to haunt him; he sensed unfinished business. He envisioned a spacious, expansive music that was different from anything he’d done before—and the trumpet, a notoriously unforgiving instrument, was his portal to it. He began practicing every day, whether on the road with the band, at home, or on the set of a film (his filmography includes prominent roles in My Own Private Idaho, The Big Lebowski, and Suburbia).

This mostly solitary offstage work led to Honora, Flea’s kaleidoscopic, bracingly forward-looking, and defiantly colorful solo debut, which was released on March 27, 2026, and is his first project with Nonesuch Records.

The album features Flea on trumpet and electric bass alongside some of the most fearless improvising artists currently active—drummer Deantoni Parks, bassist Anna Butterss, guitarist Jeff Parker and saxophonist/producer Josh Johnson. Among the guests are Thom Yorke, Nick Cave, and the veteran saxophonist Rickey Washington (father of Kamasi), who became Flea’s mentor on this journey.

“It was beautiful from the first second,” Flea says of the recording sessions. “There was never any point where it was like, ‘Uh-oh, I don’t know if this is going to work. I don’t know if they really understand what I’m up to.’ Which could have happened.”

He adds that he brought some apprehension about his limited experience playing jazz to the sessions. “I believe in myself, but I was worried that they might quietly be like, ‘You can’t fucking play.’ It was just the opposite. My drug days are long behind me, but I really felt that I was on drugs the entire time we were recording. Every time we sat down to play, I was just floating with them.”

ABOUT LAUREN HALSEY
Lauren Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles) is rethinking the possibilities for art, architecture, and community engagement. She produces both standalone artworks and site-specific projects, particularly in the South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles where her family has lived for several generations. Combining found, fabricated, and handmade objects, Halsey’s work maintains a sense of civic urgency and free-flowing imagination, reflecting the lives of the people and places around her and addressing the crucial issues confronting people of color, queer populations, and the working class. Critiques of gentrification and disenfranchisement are accompanied by real-world proposals as well as celebration of on-the-ground aesthetics. Inspired by Afrofuturism and funk, as well as the signs and symbols that populate her local environments, Halsey creates a visionary form of culture that is at once radical and collaborative.

Halsey has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including Serpentine, London, England (2024); Seattle Art Museum, WA (2022); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2019); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2018). Halsey presented monumental site-specific installations at Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2024 and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden in 2023. Halsey is the 2021 recipient of the Seattle Art Museum’s Gwendolyn Knight | Jacob Lawrence Prize and received the Mohn Award for artistic excellence at the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2018 biennial. Recent group exhibitions include Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2024–2025); Reverberations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2024); He Said/She Said: Contemporary Women Artists Interject, Dallas Museum of Art, TX (2023); The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2023); and Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (2021). Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; The Broad, Los Angeles, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. In 2020, Halsey founded Summaeverythang Community Center and in 2026, completed sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles, a major public sculpture park in South Central Los Angeles. Halsey lives and works in Los Angeles.

ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
One of the largest outdoor amphitheaters in the world, the Hollywood Bowl seats nearly 18,000 and has been the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since its official opening in 1922. As a public park owned by the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation and operated in partnership with the LA Phil , the Hollywood Bowl welcomes visitors from around the world and hosts the finest artists across all genres of music. For over a century, the Hollywood Bowl has offered some of the best entertainment value in Los Angeles—with many classical and jazz performances still offering $1 seats at the top of the venue. In April 2026, it was named Outdoor Concert Venue of the Year at the 37th Annual Pollstar Awards, marking the 18th time it has received this honor. For millions of Southern California music lovers, the Hollywood Bowl remains synonymous with summer. hollywoodbowl.com

ABOUT THE LA PHIL
Under the leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel (through August 2026), the LA Phil offers live performances, media initiatives and learning programs that inspire and strengthen communities in Los Angeles and beyond. The Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra is the foundation of the LA Phil’s offerings, which also include a multi-genre, multidisciplinary presenting program and such youth development programs as YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles). Performances are offered on four historic venues—Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, The Ford, and Beckmen YOLA Center—as well as through a variety of media platforms.  In all its endeavors, the LA Phil seeks to enrich the lives of individuals and communities through musical, artistic and learning experiences that resonate in our world today.

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