In Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” an editor sums it up: “We were such a weird animal. We weren’t apples or oranges. We were like a kumquat.” ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Helen Money, aka cellist/composer Alison Chesley has unveiled the video for "Many ...

Helen Money is the stage name of cellist Alison Chesley. The cello is one of those instruments that is almost automatically warm and enveloping. Chesley adds a bit of ice to the sound, playing with ...

Helen Money (aka cellist Alison Chesley)’s new album Atomic is crushingly heavy, dark and oppressive. It looms like a dark cloud before breaking into waves of hope and — buried in there, but ...

Helen Money, aka unparalleled cellist and composer Alison Chesley, and composer/producer Will Thomas are announcing their debut collaborative album, Trace, out May 12, 2023. Having worked together in ...

This is one of those “Wow!” weeks for Chicago music fans, as two performers with a rich history in this city’s edgy music scene are out and about, making noise. People first got a glimpse of cellist ...

Before cellist Alison Chesley began a solo career under the name Helen Money, she was in the much-touted, underperforming Chicago power pop band Verbow with Jason Narducy. After Verbow broke up in the ...

John Cale tries to fight the sense that he's doing the same thing over and over Credit: Shawn Brackbill I’m great. How are you? I was just listening to your track. It was very nicely recorded. Oh, ...

Alison Chesley, also known by her stage name of Helen Money, should be pleased. It’s one thing to take the cello out of its usual placement in an orchestra or string quartet and, in a seemingly quirky ...

The first thing that I did was to connect with nature. I got into watching the birds in my backyard, putting up feeders and a fountain. There’s a park near me where I’d go for walks. And I took this ...

Everything you need to know about Alison Chesley's relationship with her cello you can glean from YouTube. In one live performance video after another, almost always in rock clubs, the classically ...