Thursday, March 26, 20268:00 pm
$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)doors 7pm
The Westerlies share their new album celebrating the compositional voice of American music pioneer and longtime friend and mentor, Bill Frisell.
Their performance will feature new, never-before-heard compositions from Frisell’s recent notebooks, as well as favorites from the composer’s vast catalog.
Riley Mulherkar trumpet
Chloe Rowlands trumpet
Andy Clausen trombone
Addison Maye-Saxon trombone
“Sublime, precise and deeply spiritual” – DownBeat Magazine, Frank Alkyer
“For the brass quartet The Westerlies, “beyond category” rings true thanks to their unique blend of jazz, classical, new improvised music, chamber music and Americana.” – Jazz Times, Lee Mergner
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
The Westerlies, “an arty quartet…mixing ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk” (The New York Times) are a New York-based horn ensemble. Over the past fifteen years, this self-described “accidental brass quartet” have served as high emissaries of a genre-agnostic musical language that upends presumptions of the brass tradition, creating a rare hybrid: music both “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” (NPR Music). Since their inception, the ensemble has relentlessly composed, arranged, adapted, recorded and internationally toured new work, both on their own and with a diverse selection of luminary collaborators including Fleet Foxes, Conrad Tao, Haley Heynderickx, Theo Bleckmann, Aoife O’Donovan, Common, Dave Douglas, Vieux Farka Touré, and many more. The Westerlies’ 2024 concert engagements included over sixty performances across 22 states for some 25,000 audience members and workshops reaching more than 2600 students. The Westerlies are committed to an intentional, equity-based mission of social and musical activism from their platform as a registered 501(c)3 not-for-profit.
