In Collaboration with Publik Secrets Society, Caravan World Rhythms presents a Free Outdoor Sunset Concert at beautiful Hadden Park (Kits Beach), Vancouver, featuring two innovative performers: BC-based solo musician Hannah Epperson, and the surrealist neo-zombie trad duo Puuluup from Estonia!
Please RSVP in advance. Registration is by donation. Performance begins at 6pm.
There will be limited capacity in the performance area, with staff and volunteers keeping everyone comfortable. Please be mindful of your proximity to others at all times. Feel free to bring-your own seats or blankets to sit on.
Public washrooms can be accessed in this park.
About the Artists:
Hannah Epperson
With violin, loop pedal, voice and innovative rhythmic improvisations with proximate objects, Hannah weaves uncanny connection with her audiences, taking listeners on exhilarating journeys. As a companion in musical experience, she is powerful yet playful and gentle, often exploring the essential cultural and political matters of our age without ever leaving the miracle of the commonplace or us behind. Hannah Epperson has been called a neo-classical composer and musician, indie folk/rocker and avant-garde pop artist. She’s performed at jazz and electronica, folk, art, new music and rock festivals.
„ … defies the expectations of pop music… The end product is unique, haunting, addictive” – Ted Gioia
„ As a rising millennial artist, her chilling and evocative voice is nothing short of extraordinary.“ – La Blogothèque
http://www.hannahepperson.ca/
PUULUUP
A pinch of surrealism, modern folklore and talharpa revival! The old and the new stick together like water and sleet in Puuluup’s oeuvre. They play talharpas – a traditional bowed lyre, popular in Northern Europe since the early middle ages and played on Western Estonian islands until the beginning of 20th century.
Puuluup directs the vibrations of talharpa’s horsehair strings through effect blocks and looper, uses alternative bowing and drumming techniques and sounds. The mellow sighs of talharpa are paired with electronically amplified echoes, knocks, creaks and crackles, while still maintaining the instrument’s natural sound.
The lyrics and melodies are a mixture of their musical memories and improvisation. The music may have a dancing beat, or resemble a dark film soundtrack, spy around in the chambers of ancient talharpa players, or travel to far-away lands. They sing about wind turbines, heroes from Polish TV series, fat cakes and the uncomfortable feeling that your neighbor’s dog might try to bite you while you take out the trash.
They play with music as they play with words, sometimes creating their own language. As the band states: “We draw inspiration from Vormsi nights, trams in November, junkies in love, criminals from Odessa and Antonio Vivaldi”. As a side dish, when giving live concerts they also offer choreographic flittering which emerged on its own during the numerous days these two man spent in the rehearsal rooms.
NOTE: PUULUUP will also be performing indoors on July 20 at the Fox Cabaret, with Ukrainian band Balaklava Blues. Info and tickets for this event here: https://www.vtixonline.com/caravan-world-rhythms/2626/
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Hadden Park is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.