Faoileán with Elias Cardoso & Helen Kuhar at The Luthier Collective

Name: Faoileán with Elias Cardoso & Helen Kuhar at The Luthier Collective
Start: 2024-10-16T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 487 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143-3348, United States

Schedule

Wed Oct 16 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

487 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143-3348, United States | Somerville, MA

DOORS 6:30pm, MUSIC 7:00pm
Tix sliding scale $15-25
About Elias Cardoso:
Elias Cardoso is a multi-instrumentalist from Boston, Massachusetts. He is a longtime member of Boston’s Celtic music scene, having played there for over 12 years, and has performed all over the country, including on stages at the KVMR Celtic Festival, Club Passim, and the Burren Backroom.
Since graduating in 2019 from Berklee College of Music, he has toured in both the US and Europe with Old Blind Dogs, Mari Black, Dave Cory, Celtic Rhythms, the Strawberry Hill Band, and his band Glenville.
https://www.elias-cardoso.com/
About Helen Kuhar:
Hailing from Seattle, Washington, Helen Kuhar currently resides in Cambridge, MA. Helen began exploring their connection to folk and Celtic music in 2020 while studying with renowned contra guitarist Alex Sturbaum (Countercurrent, The Engine Room). In 2021, they moved to Ithaca, NY where they began performing with distinguished Upstate New York fiddler Tim Ball (Arise & Go). The two joined forces to tour Tim’s debut solo album Upstate Crossroads, which was the No. 1 CD of January 2023 on the FAI Folk music chart. Upon moving to Cambridge in 2022, Helen dove into the thriving celtic music scene, playing contra dances, Irish sessions, and concerts around New England and the Pacific Northwest.
Since then, Helen has developed their style as a contra accompanist, Irish session backer, and vocalist. Helen is a member of the contra band Good Company which includes Rohan Weeden on fiddle and Cecily Mills on cello. The group performed at 2024 NEFFA and 2024 Northwest Folklife Festival, and will be performing at the 2025 Flurry Festival. In addition to playing contra dances with Good Company, Helen also performs with fiddler Kat Wallace, and plays with The Ice Cream Truckers (Noah VanNorstrand and Kelsey Wells) and Effervescence (Alex Sturbaum and Vienna Schyer), and Stove Dragon (Oliver Scanlon, Rose Jackson, Sam Zakon-Anderson and Max Newman).
Helen is also involved with expanding the local Irish scene in Boston. They founded the Wednesday night Irish session at The Sea Hag in Harvard Square alongside local fiddler Clare Fraser, which centers female and gender-nonconforming trad musicians. Helen also leads the Thursday night Irish session at Democracy Brewing in Downtown Crossing.
https://www.helenkuharmusic.com/
About Faoileán:
In the Irish language, the word Faoileán [FWEEL-AWN] means seabird; or, one who circles or spins, or one who cries, or wild one. Inspired by the gravity and multiplicity of this word and its native language, Nathan Bishop, Connor Brogan, and Rob Helsel adopted Faoileán as the name for their Philadelphia-based Irish folk outfit.
Faoileán challenges and experiments with the limits of modern Irish folk music, from executing tender verses in five-hundred-year-old ballads, to gliding and soaring through original and handed-down melodies, to ripping the very fabric of tunes apart through intensity and atmosphere. Nathan helms the bowed instruments and commands a tapestry of tunes, Rob solidifies rhythms through guitars and banjos, and Connor adds textures and dimension through an assortment of string and bellow instruments. Rob and Connor share and trade vocal leads and accompaniments. The trio released their debut full-length album last year, Far Hills, and often play at the MAAS Building in Philadelphia and Flounder Brewing Company in New Jersey, along with many venues in between.