Grammy-nominated brass quartet The Westerlies will perform at Cooperstown Summer Music Festival on August 4.
The quartet comprises Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands on trumpet and Andy Clausen and Addison Maye-Saxon on trombone. It will perform its 2025 album Paradise at Fenimore Farm and Country Village in Cooperstown beginning at 7:00 p.m.
The Westerlies has earned “a unique reputation for exploring the emotional textures of American music” (DownBeat). The group is known for championing living composers and collaborators including Caroline Shaw, Nico Muhly, Conrad Tao, Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb and Theo Bleckmann. Additionally, they have forged a sound that defies category with an organic blend of jazz, classical, new improvised music, and Americana that is entirely their own. The ensemble has relentlessly composed, arranged, adapted, recorded, and toured over the past fifteen years. It has forged a sound that defies category with an organic blend of jazz, classical, new improvised music, and Americana that is entirely their own. In Paradise, they draw on the rich tradition of American hymns and folk music, presenting kaleidoscopic arrangements of traditional songs including “Saro” and John Prine’s “Way Back Then” alongside new compositions inspired by the same spirit.
The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival was founded in 1999 by flutist Linda Chesis. It has been bringing world-class chamber music performances to the Cooperstown area for over 25 years. The festival has featured performances by the American, Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Jupiter and Jasper String Quartets, Stefon Harris, Bill Charlap, Kurt Elling, Simone Dinnerstein, Mark O’Connor, John Pizzarelli, the Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company and many more. Concerts are held in venues across Cooperstown, including the Otesaga Hotel, Fenimore Farm and Country Village and Christ Episcopal Church.
Tickets are $35 for adults and $15 for students and children. Tickets must be purchased in advance at cooperstownmusicfest.org/new-events.
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