“Coffee Cantata.”

Call it pop-up Bach. This week, as the world comes to South Florida to absorb all the haute and the happening in contemporary visual art at Art Basel Miami Beach, other enterprising artists are taking advantage of the gathering to call attention to their work in other fields.

On Saturday night, a specialty coffee shop called Panther Coffee, in Miami’s gritty but vibrant Wynwood neighborhood, is presenting a performance of Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (BWV 211) by J.S. Bach, better known as the Coffee Cantata.

Once Bach had moved to Leipzig in 1723 to take over direction of the music at St. Thomas Church, he spent the bulk of his compositional time writing sacred music. But this piece, which dates from the early 1730s (scholars think), is one of his rare secular vocal works, and what’s more, is a comedy.

Some experts think of it more as an opera, a tale of a woman who loves drinking coffee — If I can’t have three cups a day, she sings, I turn into a dried-up piece of roast goat — and her conflict with her exasperated father, who thinks it’s a terrible habit. She agrees to give it up for the sake of marriage, but then in an aside to the audience, says that the only beau she’ll ever agree to wed must love coffee, too.

It’s worth noting that part of Bach’s musical life in Leipzig included a Collegium Musicum, an ensemble that met regularly at Zimmerman’s Coffeehouse in the city to play music. Bach directed it regularly, and scholars think many of the instrumental works he wrote must have gotten hearings at these gatherings.

So it’s natural to think of Bach’s music being played amid the fragrance of freshly roasted and brewed coffee. The beverage itself was still a relative newcomer to Europe, having been introduced only in the previous century from the Ottoman lands, where it had been drunk for centuries, and it had to overcome a lot of misinformation about its effects.

I personally love the idea of this piece being performed in the middle of a coffee shop, as in this video featuring the great Dutch Baroque specialist Ton Koopman. The production is being directed by pianist Juvenal Correa-Salas, and it runs for an hour beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday at Panther Coffee on Northwest Second Avenue (305-677-3952; panthercoffee.com). It fits right in with the trend in classical music today for performances in every kind of space, not just concert halls.

And it’s always nice to find Bach letting down his peruke every now and again, and to hear the words of Liesgen’s aria, which expresses a sentiment all of us who love our daily brew can agree with:

Ah! how sweet coffee tastes!/ Lovelier than a thousand kisses / smoother than muscatel wine. Coffee, I must have coffee / and if anyone wants to give me a treat,/ ah!, just give me some coffee!