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DAKHABRAKHA
The Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha is a feast for the eyes and ears. Steeped in Slavic folk music, the band wields a menagerie of instruments, includes cellos, accordion, hurdy-gurdy, trombone, and a variety of percussion. Their keening polyphonic vocals are almost as dramatic as their theatrical getup, as the three women perform decked out in wedding dresses with tall black fur hats. They can sound impossibly sweet or ferociously guttural in the space of a phrase, and can lay down grooves as lean and propulsive as a funk rhythm section. ANDREW GILBERT
INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.