Barbar Band

Name: Barbar Band
Start: 2025-05-17T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-17T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Red Poppy Art House

Schedule

Sat May 17 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Red Poppy Art House | San Francisco, CA

Modern Soundscapes in Armenian Music
Barbar Band is a creative collaboration between Khatchadour Khatchadourian, vocalist and duduk player, and Karine Vann, pianist, and musicologist. Combining modern musical styles with traditional instrumentation, the duo presents arrangements of Armenia’s folk, troubadour, and sacred music, which include musical landscapes both old and new to showcase the incredible diversity in these timeless songs of love, loss, faith, and the land.
Featuring:
Karine Vann - Piano and Vocals
Khatchadour Khatchadourian - Duduk and Vocals
Saturday, May 17th, 2025
Time : 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission : (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Khatchadour is a Lebanese-Armenian vocalist and musician. He sings in Armenian, Arabic, and Farsi, and plays the Armenian double reed woodwind, Duduk. Khatchadour has released five albums and is working on his sixth album, Shounch: Breath.
Follow his work on:
FB: https://www.facebook.com/kkhatchadourian
IG: https://www.instagram.com/dudukwhisperer/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Khatchmusic
Website: www.khatchmusic.com
Karine Vann is a pianist and researcher with degrees in classical piano from the Jacobs School of Music and Musicology from the University of Oxford. Originally from the DC area, she studied improv with local jazz master Wade Beach for two years before moving to Armenia, where she worked with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage to help preserve and document the country’s rich folk culture. She currently resides in Napa, where she teaches piano, singing, improvisation, and arranging.
Follow her work on:
FB: https://www.facebook.com/kari.vann
IG: https://www.instagram.com/janaparpiano/
Website: www.karinev.com