Archetypes explores the universal ­symbolic ­archetypes that appear in stories, legends, and myths throughout the world—great floods, ­creation, paradise, apocalypses—as well as ­characters that appear in stories across cultures. ­Expressing themselves through guitar, voice, and percussion quartet, the ensemble will explore global musical traditions taking the audience on a vast musical journey grounded in familiar stories.

Archetypes bind all of us together through our shared connection to these fundamental aspects of the human experience. In storytelling, an ­archetype can be a ­character, a setting, a theme, or it can even be a particular outcome. This may explain how some stories can sound almost identical, even if they originate from vastly ­different cultures across the globe and ­feature characters and settings that are in ­complete contrast with one another.