Music in the Alley
Our summertime outdoor music series.
Innovative music in an unexpected setting.
Music in the Alley - Summer 2024
Join us in the alley between The Phoenix and our Co-Sponsor Blackback Pub on select Fridays.
6-9pm FREE music, with food and beverage for purchase from Blackback Pub.
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Slim Pickins
Slim Pickins hails from the NEK bringing with it a multi genre menu of music from baroque to Gypsy Jazz and lots in between. Sporting Don Schabner on guitar, Mary Rowell on violin and uke, Fran Rowell on cello and Annie Rowell on barnyard bass, this insouciant quartet just wants to play everything they like no matter what. You’ll want to tap your toes to the “chuckchuck” cello. Swoon to the Brazilian Chorinho, Sing along to some favorite pops tunes and be reminded that the Pasacaglia is indeed a relevant musical form. This unique band enjoys playing and singing and can’t wait to share it all with you.
Lovecraft
Lovecraft features the original works of its membership as well as fresh takes on classic tunes. The quintet of performers, composers, and educators fuses classic jazz traditions with contemporary approaches, exploring the musical realm between order and chaos.
Lovecraft features:
Brian Boyes - Trumpet
Evan Crandell - Saxophone
Tom Cleary - Keys
Kyle Saulnier - Bass
Andy Gagnon - Drums
Helen Gillet
Helen Gillet is a musician, composer, cellist, bilingual 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 New Orleans Jazz Museum and has been nominated three times, most recently in 2023, as a rising star in Downbeat Magazine's Critics Poll.
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.
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 Morphine, Kidd Jordan, Marianne Faithful, Cassandra Wilson, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, Steve Earle, Iron & Wine, opened up as a solo artist for Les Claypool and Jeff Tweedy, has performed the Copenhagen Jazz Fest, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center and was a 2024 Big Ears Music Festival and many more.
All are welcome.
TURNmusic aims to be inclusive to all participants of TURNmusic events, live and online, to ensure a welcoming, safe, and respectful environment by reflecting the diverse interests of our audience and artists. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, regardless of gender, age, gender identity, race, health status, national origin, relationship status, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and religion.
Accessibility.
It is our mission to make our venue and programming as accessible and inclusive as possible. At TURNmusic we are committed to ensuring the best possible experience for all artists, audience members and other visitors to our space.
Physical access. Accessing the gallery involves climbing up two steps and walking on the paved sidewalk of a paved street. A ramp can be provided on request. The venue is single story. We have a bathroom on site on the first floor, however it is not ADA compliant.
Assistance dogs. We welcome assistance and guide dogs at The Phoenix and are happy for them to accompany you in any of our spaces at the venue and can join you in the gallery for events. Please notify us if you will be bringing a dog to a performance so we can alert the artists.