KALA (rhymes with Paula) presents award-winning Cello Artist Helen Gillet on Friday, November 15th at 7:30pm. Tickets online at kalaastoria.com. The New Orleans-based artist is composer, vocalist and looping artist who creates multi-layered soundscapes with voice, cello and live looping technology. Her eclectic musical palette includes French chansons, rock, funk, pop, avant-garde and even the Bohemian flair of the Velvet Underground.
Gillet’s 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, Members of Morphine, Marianne Faithful, Cassandra Wilson, and Steve Earle. She 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 performs at a variety of festivals and venues worldwide.
Doors open at 7:00pm. Show at 7:30pm. Tickets $20 online at kalaastoria.com. KALA is an intimate concert venue, with beverage bar, located at 1017 Marine Dr. in Astoria.
