Alverno Presents’ final show of the season brings the hard driving folk rock of the Ukraine’s DakhaBrakha to the Pitman Theatre on Thursday, April 23, at 8:00 p.m.

Founded in 2004 by former underground theater performers, DakhaBrakha possesses an incredible stage presence that transcends its eclectic repertoire and instrumentation — which includes spacious vocals, accordion, bass drum, mouth harp and cello. The group mixes everything from traditional Ukrainian songs to punk-pop, often with the close harmonies usually associated with Balkan music. Accompanied by Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian traditional instrumentation, the quartet’s astonishingly powerful and uncompromising vocal range creates a trans-national sound rooted in Ukrainian culture.

Tickets are $20 and are available online at http://alvernopresents.alverno.edu or at the Alverno Presents Box Office at 414-382-6044.

Alverno Presents

Alverno Presents, the performing arts series of Alverno College, is celebrating its 55th year. The series has innovated beyond our history as the longest running, continuous arts presenter in the city, to our niche of presenting contemporary dance, world music and jazz and an array of performance events. Alverno Presents shares the school’s mission by ensuring broad access to and participation in learning, experiencing and developing the arts for the learning community of Alverno, and our community as a whole.