Noon | Claudia Cassidy Theater
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Ordo Sakhna I sometimes think even midwesterners used to the Great Plains would feel a terrifying agoraphobia if suddenly transplanted to the Central Asian steppes. But their wide-openness seems to inspire a sort of intimacy in the traditional music of the nomadic tribes who call them home. Their songs certainly evoke the miles yet to travel and the rocking and galloping of the horses who’ll help them do it, but they’re also flirtatious, witty, and full of a very down-to-earth feel for the joys and sorrows of the community. Seven-man, three-woman ensemble Ordo Sakhna hail from Kyrgyzstan, right on the edge of the great Asian steppe, and with their spectacular traditional costumes and arsenal of instruments—keening ocarina, sproinging mouth harp, pounding drums, chiming fiddles and lutes—they bring some of the vastness of the sky and the closeness of the yurt with them wherever they go. —MK
6:30 PM | Randolph Cafe
Bilja Krstic
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