Music: Pop, Rock, Jazz, Blues, & Traditional

Vandaveer: The Ark.

D.C.-based alt-folk ensemble led by the duo of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Charles Heidinger and vocalist Rose Guerin. Its music, at once seductively melodic and unsettlingly desolate, draws on an array of influences from Shel Silverstein to John Steinbeck to explore the darker, death-haunted precincts of traditional American music. Its new CD, Oh, Willie, Please, is a collection of old-time standards, from “Pretty Polly” and “The Knoxville Girl” to “Mary of the Wild Moor” and “Henry Lee.”
8 p.m., The Ark, 316 S. Main. Tickets $11 in advance the Michigan Union Ticket Office (mutotix.com), the ark, org, and at the door. To charge by phone, call 763-TKTS. [map]

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