Alash: Tuvan Throat Singers

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Can’t find your tickets? First check your junk/spam folder for an email from “Ticketbud Orders.” If you don't see your tickets, try to retrieve them here. After trying both of these things, please contact us if you still don’t have your tickets. DETAILS Any tickets not sold before the show will be available at the door. Doors open at 7:00 PM and the concert starts at 8:00 PM. All ticket sales are final. Refunds/exchanges are not offered. Plan Your Visit About the Artists Alash is a trio of master throat singers and instrumentalists from Tuva, a tiny republic in the heart of Central Asia. The ancient art of throat singing is a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. The musicians are inspired by the music of their grandparents, great-grandparents, and the great musicians of Tuva and Central Asia. At the same time, they are influenced by such western artists as Sun Ra and Jimi Hendrix. Yet the Alash musicians never sacrifice the integrity of their heritage in an effort to make their music more hip for an American audience. Rather they look for contemporary ideas that mesh well with the sound and feel of traditional Tuvan music. Alash first toured the U.S. under the sponsorship of the OpenWorld Leadership program of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts. Since then, they have returned many times, to the delight of American audiences. The Washington Post described their music as “utterly stunning,” quipping that after the performance “audience members picked their jaws up off the floor.”

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