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SCRAP•ARTS•MUSIC
Thursday, April 4, 2013 / 7:30 p.m.
Delivering intricate rhythms, athletic choreography and the hottest, most inventive reuse of materials on stage anywhere, ScrapArtsMusic is BACK to Reno by popular demand! The green-friendly group uses percussion instruments fashioned from such offbeat toss-offs as industrial scraps, accordion parts, artillery shells and you-name-its to produce their intoxicating mix of music and spectacle. Their roots in street performance and jazz+world traditions combined with kinetic mayhem have elicited knock-out superlatives worldwide: “Scrap rocks...fantastic...pure magic...five stars...WOW!”
Adult $30/ Senior $26/ Youth $12/ UNR student $5
Past Performances
H’Sao
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 / 7:30 p.m.
The award-winning Afro-pop quintet H’Sao draws on native roots (from Chad via Montréal, with family ties as brothers) and artful blends of gospel, soul and jazz to produce their magnificent a capella sound. Add to that keyboards, djembe, drums, guitar, bass, hopeful words, contagious energy and mesmerizing African dance and they sizzle on the vast soundscape of world music (Just ask Queen Elizabeth, for whom they’ve performed.) H’Sao: H for hirondelles/swallows — the birds their father says are always searching for higher ground — and Sao for an ancient civilization of Chadian warriors. Definitely powerful, definitely flying high.
Debashish Bhattacharya featuring Subhasis Bhattacharya, tabla, and Anandi Bhattacharya, tamboura, vocals
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 / 7:30 p.m.
Flawless and fluid, the renowned Grammy-nominated, BBC-awarded, world-music innovator Debashish Bhattacharya earned his country’s reverential Pandit (master) designation as what one critic has called “the Indian embodiment of Jimi Hendrix.” Not only is he one of the best guitarists in the world, but when his basic slide guitar failed to support the astounding range of his modern riffs and spiritual ragas, Bhattacharya just invented several new ones. His intermingling of American jazz and Delta blues with the ethereal traditions of India is simply otherworldly.
SYBARITE5
Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 / 7:30 p.m.
Impeccably trained in the classics, these award-winning young string musicians also reveal eclectic tastes for excellence no matter the genre. Their reputation for redefining the rules of chamber mastery has gained the attention of such an unlikely mix of supporters as the Library of Congress, the CBS Early Show, his Holiness the Dalai Lama, New York’s Apple Store and, not surprisingly, the Aspen Music Festival and Carnegie Hall. Or, as Strings Magazine has written: “[SYBARITE5] juxtaposing the likes of Stravinski with Radiohead or Dvorák with Led Zeppelin...doesn’t even begin to describe the range of their eclecticism or the depth of their repertoire.”
Adult $24/ Senior $20/ Youth $12/ UNR student $5
Makana
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 / 7:30 p.m.
Charting what National Geographic calls “a new sonic frontier with deep ties to tradition,” internationally acclaimed Hawai’ian slack key guitarist/singer/composer Makana is considered the youngest authority on his centuries-old art form and according to Esquire Magazine, “its greatest living player.” Makana is renowned among a diverse fan base, from his island neighbors to fellow guitar greats — Joe Satriani, Elliot Easton and Kirk Hammett have all praised his work — and recently, the White House.
Adult $24/ Senior $20/ Youth $12/ UNR student $5
