Come enjoy an evening of wild cultural cross-pollination with Karashay, a collaboration between Tuvan throat singing sensations Chirgilchin, didjeridu master Stephen Kent, and Siberian singer and nature impressionist Sarymai. Chirgilchin, the current Tuvan national throat singing champions, are a younger-generation ensemble of masters in this extraordinary traditional vocal technique, where a singer amplifies and manipulates the overtones in his voice to produce up to three distinct, unearthly tones at one time. The quartet also features a woman performer (rare in the world of Tuvan throat singing), and traditional instruments such as the doshpuluur (a two-stringed lute), igil (a violin ancestor), and dungur (shamanic rattle drum). Sarymai, a truly unique musician from Siberia, sings, plays all the traditional instruments of his region, and imitates natural sounds, animals, and birds, creating songs that often sound like performances by several actors.

An innovator on the global music scene with the ability to trigger the imagination and transport the spirit, didjeridu virtuoso and composer Stephen Kent has done more than any other musician to bring the ancient Aboriginal sound into a contemporary context. During his 20-year career, he has explored a remarkable range of playing styles in diverse musical genres, with a broad range of performers around the globe and in group projects like Trance Mission and Beasts of Paradise. Tonight's master exponents of some of the world's great ancient musical traditions produce a magical sound that is completely new, yet deeply familiar.