Doors & bar at 7 - Music at 7:30
$30 advance tickets - $35 at the door
Seated listening room-style show
All ages - General admission
Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet returns! An Alluvion favorite with unique global sounds. Always putting on a mesmerizing and fearless show like no other, we are proud to welcome back this incredibly virtuosic band as a part of The Alluvion World Music Series. This time they will be joined by vocalist Svetlana Sahakyan and percussionist Carolyn Koebel.
The Quartet performs original compositions and music from Turkey, Armenia, Egypt, Ukraine, India, Bulgaria and Greece.
Featured instruments/artists on Oct 25 include:
Dave Sharp-Bass & Synthesizer
Henrik Karapetyan-Violin
Igor Houwat-Electric Oud
Mike List-Percussion
Carolyn Koebel-Percussion
Svetlana Sahakyan-Voice
DAVE SHARP WORLDS QUARTET
The Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet blends rhythms, sounds and textures from across the globe with world music inspired original compositions. Featuring oud, violin, electric bass, synthesizer and world percussion, the WORLDS QUARTET is fueled by the spirit of jazz, world music and dynamic exploratory improvisation. Bassist, composer, and bandleader Dave Sharp leads the WORLDS QUARTET to explore music traditions from Armenia, India, Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Greece.
The quartet has performed live at the JazzAscona Festival (Switzerland), the Detroit International Jazz Festival, the Lansing Jazz Fest, the Concert of Colors (Detroit), the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, the Bach Music Festival (Kalamazoo), the Lansing Harmony Celebration and the Rasa Indian Arts Festival (Ann Arbor), as well as intimate venues such as the Alluvion (Traverse CIty) Kerrytown Concert House (Ann Arbor), Blue LLama Jazz Club, Music Hall Jazz Cafe (Detroit), the Blue LLama Jazz Club (Ann Arbor) UrbanBeat Events Center (Lansing), the North Star Lounge (Ann Arbor) and the Riverfolk Music and Arts Blacksmith Shop Concert Series in Manchester.
Svetlana Sahakyan
Soprano Svetlana Sahakyan has spent a lifetime as a member of the celebrated Armenian State Academic Choir and traveled the world, singing Armenian and International repertoire (in over 25 languages) from the stages of Queen Elizabeth Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Palais de Congres in Paris and our own Detroit Symphony Hall. Her repertoire includes arias by Russian and Italian composers, as well as numerous folk, religious and classical works from her native Armenian repertoire. In recent years, shortly after retiring from her 40 plus years of tenure from the choir, Svetlana has dedicated herself to Armenian liturgical music and is a soloist in several churches in her native Yerevan. She spends her free time between Yerevan, Brussels and Detroit, with either of her three children, all professional musicians.
Carolyn Koebel
Percussionist Carolyn has been exploring rhythm and vibration for the past thirty years. Her early studies are rooted in the Western traditions, while the past 20 years have found her slowly traversing the globe in search of indigenous folk roots and traditional rhythmic materials from Latin & South America, West Africa and the Middle East, and all points in-between.
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