“A whirling dervish of the cello.”

the legendary Czech violin/vocalist, w/ special guest, Friday October 3rd, 8pm.

$25 at the door, $20 advance. 

((to reserve email seward.peter@gmail.com OR Venmo @PayPeterSeward)

Sunday, October 26th, 4pm,

$20 advance, $25 at the door. To reserve Venmo @PayPeterSeward or email seward.peter@gmail.com.

Esther Baker will share two original pieces using pre-recorded audio with her acoustic cello. One work is inspired by cellist Eugene Friesen who focuses on meditation and improvisation. The original concept for the second piece is artist Sterz Imrie who monitored his own brain tumor with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to create a score for three cellos, with projections by artist Roseminna Watson. Esther lived in Saranac Lake, Keene Valley, and now Rochester. With her husband, Gene Baker, they presented the Bakery Concert Series at Lake Flower Landing in 2017.

Patricia Santos describes herself as a singing cellist and songwriter. Lucid Culture magazine called her a “dark, diverse cello rocker.” With classical training, she melds the cello with non-classical styles and exploratory techniques for blues, rock, folk, and pop. Patricia is half of the duo, Petty Larceny, and in the parlor rock big band, Kotorino. She has worked with Hurray for the Riff Raff, Martha Redbone, Charming Disaster, and The Orange Peels, among others. She serves on the Board of Directors of the New Directions Cello Association, an alternative-style cello festival. 

Tara Hannish’s interest in multiple genres took her cello career from orchestral and traditional chamber music to theater and new music chamber groups to supporting artists like the Foo Fighters and Kanye West. She writes and records string arrangements for various musical projects. Tara and Patricia are also present as a singing cello duo, The Whiskey Girls.

– solo cello

Sunday, November 9th, 4pm

$20 advance/$25 at-the-door. To reserve Venmo @PayPeterSeward or email lakeflowerlanding@gmail.com

New York City-based cellist, Clare Monfredo, will be featured in a solo concert. She studied in Leipzig, Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship with cellist Peter Bruns. She appeared in numerous festivals including Chamber Music Northwest, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, and Music Academy of the West. Clare currently teaches cello at Hunter College in New York and is a member of the Sprechgesang Institute multi-disciplinary artist collective. She integrates traditional composers like Debussy, and Rachmaninoff, with contemporary ones like Caroline Shaw.$25 at the door.

CASEY NEILL with Billy Allen and Shamim Allen opening.   $25 at the door, $20 advance. To reserve Venmo @PayPeterSeward or email lakeflowerlanding@gmail.com

American roots and Scots/Irish-folk influences underscore Casey Neill’s songwriting and solo material. His Pogues-styled rocker, “Hurray for the Riff Raff,” is a favorite bar band cover. He attests to randomly hearing it played at clubs with no awareness that the author is in the audience. A band even claimed his title for their name. Casey tours the US, Japan, and Europe, and has performed at Town Hall (NYC), Bumbershoot (Washington state), and the Newport Folk Festival. His latest release as a bandleader of the Norway Rats, Sending Up Flares, features songs that evoke the cinematic sweep of golden-era U2 and the dark, complex alt-rock of PJ Harvey. Casey’s collaborators include Jenny Conlee (The Decemberists), Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney), and Peter Buck (R.E.M.).

Saranac Lake’s own Billy Allen, founder of the Waterhole Bar & Tavern, opens the evening with songs he’s crafted with humility, wisdom and introspection. Supported by Shamim Allen (The Dustbunnies), Billy premiered his recent songs at LFL to an overflow crowd in 2024, and he hasn’t stopped writing and performing new ones ever since.