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Touching review from Classical Voice North Carolina

January 31, 2012

EXCERPT FROM CONCERT REVIEW Turtle Island Quartet: A Tribute to John Coltrane NC State University and Raleigh Chamber Music Guild By Karen E. Moorman January 28, 2012 - Raleigh, NC: The first half of the concert was a colorful set that ranged from Latin Jazz master Paquito D'Rivera's "Wapango" to TIQ's versions of Coltrane's arrangement of Rogers' "My Favorite Things" and Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." The works on the second half are recorded on their CD A ... Read More

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MD Theater Guide calls our Strathmore mansion show "…an experience, and it was a very, very “good” one at that."

November 22, 2011

Turtle Island Quartet at Strathmore Music in the Mansion By Jane Coyne - November 21, 2011 When people ask me what kind of music I like, I borrow an answer from Duke Ellington. “Good.” Last night, Strathmore Music in the Mansion presented the Grammy Award-winning Turtle Island Quartet in two performances of “Have You Ever Been ….?” the music of Jimi Hendrix and David Balakrishnan. It was an experience, and it was a very, very “good” one at that. Turtle Island String Quartet. Photo by Jay ... Read More

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Turtle Island’s Voodoo Children

November 17, 2011

Turtle Island’s Voodoo Children Pay A Visit to Electric Ladyland The groundbreaking string quartet plays the music of Jimi Hendrix this Friday at Strathmore. By Sriram Gopal Turtle Island’s Voodoo Children. Photograph by Jay Blakesberg In just two years, Jimi Hendrix recorded three studio albums that turned rock-and-roll on its ear and made an icon out of a man who was just in his mid-twenties. With 1967’s Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love, Hendrix created the archetypal ... Read More

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The New Yorker talks up our Iridium show 11/13

November 7, 2011

Goings On About Town: Night Life Turtle Island Quartet Nov. 13: The Turtle Island Quartet combines the rigors of classical discipline with the desire to experiment and expand beyond the traditional boundaries of a string quartet. They have collaborated with bluegrass, blues, and jazz musicians, and recorded an album of songs by and inspired by Jimi Hendrix. In 2007, the group released “A Love Supreme,” an album interpreting the music of John Coltrane, which will be the focus of this ... Read More

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Turtles head to Sacramento

March 28, 2011

Jay Blakesberg -The Turtle Island Quartet brings its interpretations of Jimi Hendrix tunes to Sacramento State on Wednesday. Roundup: Turtle Island Quartet at CSUS jcarnes@sacbee.com Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 The Turtle Island Quartet takes a different approach to the music of Hendrix – the four-piece string quartet approach – when it performs at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Sac State. The classical-jazz fusion trendsetters have a special affinity for Hendrix. The quartet's latest release, "Have You ... Read More

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Classical gets experienced? Hooked on Hendrix?

March 25, 2011

String quartet tip bows to Hendrix By Mike Bell, Calgary Herald March 25, 2011 4:02 AM Preview Turtle Island Quartet performs Saturday at the Banff Centre. Classical gets experienced? Hooked on Hendrix? Both descriptions seem apt but really only scratch the surface when it comes to the current work of Grammy-winning string ensemble, Turtle Island Quartet, who bring their reinterpretations of the songs of Jimi Hendrix to the Banff Centre Saturday. In fact, Mark Summer, cellist and co-founder ... Read More

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Lafayette's The Town Talk reviews us

March 13, 2011

Toe-tapping jazz, funk and rock 'n' roll was not what a couple hundred teenagers expected to hear from a string quartet Friday. Alyssa Lee, an eighth-grade L.J. Allmean Arts Academy student, expected her class would be listening to classical music on its field trip to see the Turtle Island Quartet at the Acadiana Center for the Arts. "When I heard them I didn't know it was strings, because of all the different types of techniques and sounds," Alyssa, 13, said. The quartet was made up of a ... Read More

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WNYC Soundcheck with John Schaefer

March 4, 2011

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Review of our Symphony Space show aka The Hendrix Project

March 4, 2011

Music Review Unplugging the Hendrix Experience By ALLAN KOZINN Published: March 3, 2011 In 1969 David Balakrishnan, then a teenage violin student, attended a Jimi Hendrix concert in Los Angeles that led him to reconsider his approach to his instrument, and to music more broadly. He began learning some of Hendrix’s guitar solos on the violin, and he decided that his repertory should embrace both classical music and pop. As a composer he extended that philosophy to his own music. Mr. ... Read More

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NY – here we come!

February 25, 2011

Classical Music/Opera Listings, for Feb. 25-March 3 Published: February 24, 2011 ★ Turtle Island String Quartet (Wednesday) This quartet has made a point of exploring jazz with the same seriousness it brings to classical works. Now it has taken on the music of Jimi Hendrix, which it plays with energy and inventiveness, if not quite the feedback-embellished grit that Hendrix brought to it himself. Hendrix dominates the program, which also includes “Tree of Life” by David Balakrishnan, one of the ... Read More

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May

19

2021

Pablo Center at the Confluence
Eau Claire, WI
Virtuoso pianist Cyrus Chestnut joins the Turtles for a program of unmatched brilliance.

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