01 Oct Telluride Chamber Music: ‘Not Your Average Classical’ Returns, 10/13!
Telluride Chamber Music’s “Not Your Average Classical” series is back. Show takes place Tuesday, October 13, 7pm, when the Boston-based Hanneke Cassel Trio takes the stage at The Alibi.
“Exuberant and rhythmic, somehow wild and innocent, delivered with captivating melodic clarity and an irresistible playfulness,” The Boston Globe.
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Now in its third year, the series was created by Telluride Chamber Music and The Alibi as an off-season celebration for locals: chamber music that hits a little differently, with door prizes, cocktails and tickets at just $20.
It began with a sold-out show from PROJECT Trio, followed last year by the genre-bending Biribá Union. This year, fiddler Hanneke Cassel, guitarist and singer Keith Murphy, and fiddler Jenna Moynihan bring an evening of folk-inspired music rooted in the Scottish tradition, with a nod to Cape Breton and Americana along the way.
Hanneke Cassel has spent more than two decades blending Scottish traditional fiddle with the influences of the Isle of Skye, Cape Breton Island and American grooves. A native of Port Orford, Oregon, she is a two-time U.S. National Junior Scottish Fiddle Champion and won the U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Championship in 1997.
Hanneke studied at Berklee College of Music, where she has since returned as a guest instructor, and teaches at fiddle camps including Alasdair Fraser’s Valley of the Moon and the Mike Block String Camp, founded by last year’s headliner, cellist Mike Block. She has performed across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, including at Celtic Connections, Milwaukee Irish Fest and the National Celtic Festival.
Hanneke is joined by two outstanding musicians from the traditional music world.Newfoundland-born Keith Murphy is a multi-instrumentalist and traditional singer, equally at home on guitar, mandolin and foot percussion, and known for his rhythmic arrangements of folk traditions. Jenna Moynihan, on five-string fiddle and vocals, is an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music and a recipient of the Fletcher Bright Award, with an inventive, versatile approach that draws deeply on the Scottish tradition.
Together, the trio creates “a cutting-edge acoustic sound that retains the integrity and spirit of the Scottish tradition.”
The trio comes personally recommended by the Haas Sisters, whose 2025 concert for Telluride Chamber Music went down a storm.
Anyone who loved that evening won’t want to miss this one!
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