TURNmusic presents Music in the Alley: Helen Gillet. Friday, August 15, 2025

Belgian-born Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist focusing on the worlds of electronic sound and acoustic cello. She moved to New Orleans in 2002, where she has developed an eclectic palette of experimental, jazz, folk, funk, pop and classical and has self produced fourteen albums to date. She is the recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Downbeat Magazine has named her Rising Star twice and New Orleans has given her the best Contemporary Jazz, Female Performer and Other Instrumentalist awards. Gillet’s solo performance, known for its enigmatic quality as each song is performed with a mastery of live looping technology, has been shared with audiences worldwide including her annual acclaimed performance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Helen Gillet - cello

TURNmusic presents Music in the Alley 2025. Up second, The Noah Young Trio began in New Orleans in 2015, and is already making an impact in the local and national scenes with their high energy performances. Drawing from the past while blazing a trail forward, the group blends the earthy funk music well known at home with Young’s lofty ambitious original compositional style into a sound both familiar and fresh to fans of contemporary groove-oriented jazz. As accessible as it is cerebral, the group evokes the perspective trick of an optical illusion in that the desire to get up and dance or sit down and listen can shift on a dime. Noah Young - bass Max Bronstein - guitar Andy Gagnon - drums