Helen Gillet

Helen Gillet

evanston, Illinois, US

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1245 Chicago Avenue

Helen Gillet is a musician, composer, cellist, bilingual singer (Belgian French s Critics Poll. 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. 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.