¡Radio Free Bassanda!

Globally renowned ¡Radio Free Bassanda! returns to the Arkansas Valley! They bring their eclectic mix of exotic Eastern rhythms and dizzying melodic frenzy. Music from Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonian, Persia, Armenia, North Africa, and Medieval Spain, all delivered with RFB’s trademark take-no-prisoners approach. ¡Radio Free Bassanda! presents a wide-and wild repertoire and range of instrumentation to their performances. Their use of both Eastern and Western instruments affords them a broad timbral palette with which to weave their sound landscape. Energetic and complex rhythms challenge the mind, ear and feet! Roger Landes: bouzouki, oud Chipper Thompson: dumbeq, darabukka, zarb Ben Wright: double bass Jack Boaz: Violin Jordan Langehennig: clarinet, qanun, gajda, zurna, oud, dulcimer, accordion, tin whistle