Portland Cello Project

The Portland Cello Project is a group of players with very diverse backgrounds, and with a constantly-changing lineup of artists and musicians those backgrounds always different, but the one thing they all have in common is this: They play the cello!  Led by Douglas Jenkins, the Portalnd Cello Project brings the cello to places it wouldn't normally be heard. From Prairie Home Companion to  to touring with heavy metalist Buckethead to sports bars in Texas to punk clubs in Boston to haltime shows in Portalnd, you name it they've done it. They also play music you wouldn't normally hear on the instrument from Beethoven to Adele to Kanye West and Pantera.  Today they share a number of classical and modern selections, all cello and all fantastic.  Performers:  Skip Vonkuske  Kevin Jackson  Diane Chaplin  Sage Coy  Julian Kosanovick  with Artistic Director Douglas Jenkins  Repertoire: Southern Belle, Tomorrow Tomorrow, Between the Bars - Elliott Smith; Denmark - Gideon Freudmann; Sarabande - Johann Sebastian Bach;  Follow Highway 89 on twitter: @byuh89 and on instagram: @byuh89