Doors open at 7 - Music starts at 7:30 - $30 advance tickets - $35 at the door
This will be a fully seated listening room style show
Launching the first installment of The Alluvion World Music Series is the outstanding and adventurous Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet with special guest guitarist Elden Kelly.
Recognized in the Jazz Times Critic’s Poll, Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet masterfully 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 Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine, India, Bulgaria and Greece.
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About the artists:
DAVE SHARP WORLDS QUARTET
The quartet has appeared at Jazz Ascona in Switzerland, Detroit International Jazz Festival, Lansing Jazz Fest, Concert of Colors Detroit, Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Bach Music Festival, Lansing Harmony Celebration Lansing, Rasa Indian Arts Festival Ann Arbor, and intimate venues such as Kerrytown Concert House, Blue LLama Jazz Club, Music Hall Jazz Cafe Detroit, UrbanBeat Events Center Lansing, and Riverfolk Music and Arts Blacksmith Shop Concert Series in Manchester.
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ELDEN KELLY
Guitar virtuoso, improviser, composer and sound innovator Elden Kelly is one of the world’s best kept musical secrets. Audiences of all kinds are engaged by his expressiveness, technique and original thinking. As a solo and collaborative artist, his solutions to the questions offered in the format are engaging and unforgettable, and his contributions deep and far ranging. He also has a strong and haunting vocal style which he incorporates from time to time with great effect. Whether performing his original music or transforming a known theme, it always has the mark of the exceptional.
Recently Elden recorded with Howard Levy (harmonica player from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones). The world renowned luthier Ken Parker recently called him a “once in a generation player” and being so impressed he awarded him on permanent loan a 1980 nylon string archtop called “Frankie” which he will demonstrate at the show.
Audiences in Michigan are familiar with his work with the Ann Arbor-based group Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet, having called the state home for over a decade before moving away. With the band, he has performed across the country and at Jazz Ascona in Switzerland ‘23 and ‘24.