Early Evening Jazz: Robert Lehmann + Jordan Sarkis + Suwal Singh

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NO COVER 4:30pm Show Hop on a transcultural caravan with Robert Lehmann (piano/keys) and Jordan Sarkis (oud/nay/clarinet) weaving traditional Arabic classics into Suwal Singh’s lilting cadence on tabla/darbuka, offering an intimate and genre-blending experience. ⊹ Robert Lehmann is a mixed-Filipino musician with significant experience in Arabic darbuka. His work focuses on re-examining his Western classical background through a new lens of improvised music and electronic synthesis. He gathers disparate influences across minimalism and classical, electronica and ambient, and jazz and film scores, particularly drawing on Romantic and Impressionist eras as well as Arabic music. Lehmann plays keys with several premier Twin Cities groups, including Obi Original (Nigerian Afrorock), MajMin (instrumental), Fanaka Nation (Kenyan Afrobeats/hip-hop), the Umamies (Asian-American pop), Yalla Drum (Arabic drumming group), and The Arab Band (Arabic chamber ensemble). Jordan Sarkis is a multi-instrumentalist from Fuheis, Jordan. His primary instrument is the nay (Middle Eastern flute), but he also