Helen Gillet at Historic Grand Theater (Salem, OR)

Name: Helen Gillet at Historic Grand Theater (Salem, OR)
Start: 2024-11-18T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Salem's Historic Grand Theatre and Event Center

Schedule

Mon Nov 18 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Salem's Historic Grand Theatre and Event Center | Salem, OR

CapCity Presents:
Helen Gillett w/ Third Seven
Doors at 6pm
Show at 7pm
$15 Advance or $20 DOS
All Ages Event
Helen Gillet is a musician, composer, cellist, singer (Belgian French & English), improviser and looping artist. Her prolific career has won her awards of Offbeat Best of the Beat, Gambit Big Easy Awards, featured artist at the New Orleans Jazz Museum and has been nominated three times, most recently in 2023, as a rising star in Downbeat Magazine's Critics Poll. She has played, recorded with many musicians over the past 20 years, including members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, AACM (Chicago), ICP (Holland), Members of Morph*ne, Kidd Jordan, Marianne Faithful, Cassandra Wilson, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, Steve Earle, Iron & Wine (North America Tour 2018), Zachary Richard, opened up as a solo artist for Les Claypool at the Orpheum Theatre in New Orleans in 2003 and Jeff Tweedy at Lincoln Center in 2019. She has performed at a variety of festivals and venues worldwide including the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Dark MOFO Festival in Tasmania, Darwin World Music Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, New Direction Cello Society Festival at Berkeley College of Music, Kennedy Center and at The Big Ears Music Festival in 2024 and many more.
Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist exploring synthesized sounds, texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello. For someone with her varied background, New Orleans, with its mix of cultures and musics, seemed like a natural place to call home.