Night Ark

Night Ark
Genres	Jazz,[1] folk, experimental, avant-garde
Years active	1983 - present
Labels	Traditional Crossroads
Members	Ara Dinkjian Armen Donelian Arto Tunçboyacıyan Marc Johnson

Night Ark is an instrumental jazz quartet formed in 1986. The members are American-Armenian Ara Dinkjian, Turkish Armenian Arto Tunçboyacıyan, American-Armenian Armen Donelian and American Marc Johnson. The quartet's most famous piece is "Homecoming"; a famous version thereof set to lyrics in Greek is Dynata, first sung by Eleftheria Arvanitaki. Homecoming was also the theme for the successful satirical Israeli television series 'HaHamishiya HaKamerit' ("The Chamber Quintet").

On November 2010 the Night Ark have performed a re-union show in The Jerusalem Oud Festival.

Discography

• 1986 - Picture, RCA/Novus
• 1988 - Moments, RCA/Novus
• 1998 - In Wonderland, Polygram
• 2000 - Petals on your Path, EmArcy
• 2000 - Treasures, Traditional Crossroads
• 2006 - An Armenian in America, Krikor Music