Description

Event Details:

Date:  Friday, May 9, 2025
Time:  7PM
Venue:  MUSE Sturgeon Bay
Directions: 330 Jefferson Street, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235. On the corner of Third Avenue and Jefferson Street in downtown Sturgeon Bay.
Phone: 920-333-2859
Email: tickets@musesturgeonbay.com

About the Artists:

Helen Money stands as one of the most unique and versatile cellists working today. Composer Alison Chesley uses the instrument to access and channel the extremities of human emotion, employing extensive sonic manipulation and an array of plucking and bowing techniques to summon an astonishing breadth and depth of sound. A prolific collaborator, Chesley is equally at home in both New Music and Metal circles. Past albums saw her collaborate with Jason Roeder (Sleep/Neurosis), and Rachel Grimes (Rachel’s), and she has toured extensively with Shellac, Russian Circles, Earth, Bob Mould and MONO.

Cutting across multiple genres including classical, punk, indie rock and metal, her cello playing can be found on over 150 albums including recordings from artists as diverse as Anthrax, Chris Connely, Broken Social Scene, Sea and Cake, Mono, and Verbow, the late 1990s band she co-founded with guitarist Jason Narducy that began her move away from classical cello.

Chesley’s 2016 album, Become Zero has been described by the website Metal Injection as, “[A]t once dream-y and surprisingly down to earth…the ebb and flow of her sound, the rising forces and receding waves, leave you in utter awe.” The magazine Pop Matters describes her ability on her instrument as, “[T]he cello at its most visceral and, arguably, human: powerful yet somehow flawed, less than pristine, the instrument—once as proper as a princess—stripped of its concert hall connotations,” and her 2020 album, Atomic, as, “[D]igging in the soil for deeper truths about connection – both of the human and musical variety.”