The Cliburn is going country - at least it'll feel that way when patrons of their casual series mosey up to the concerts next season. For the first time, the 2024-25 Cliburn Sessions series will take place at Tannahill's Tavern & Music Hall in the Fort Worth Stockyards.
Tannahill's is the two-year-old restaurant-bar and live music venue owned by Fort Worth chef Tim Love in the Stockyards' Mule Alley redevelopment. (Yep, they're rocking Rachmaninoff in a historic mule barn.)
The 1,000-capacity venue has hosted such events as the SXSW-style Fort Worth Music Festival, a secret Jonas Brothers concert, a Nikki Haley campaign rally, and it also keeps a full calendar of shows booked by Live Nation. The Sessions concerts will be the venue's first collaboration with the Cliburn.
In fact, a release says, this is the first time the Fort Worth-based Cliburn will produce any ticketed event in the Stockyards.
"We are very happy to be collaborating with Tim Love and his excellent team, and we believe that Tannahill’s is the perfect new home for our Cliburn Sessions series," says Cliburn president and CEO Jacques Marquis, in the release.
Marking its 10th anniversary, the Cliburn Sessions are an alternative concert series that present classical(ish) music in a more laid-back environment complete with food and drinks and engaging interaction between performers and audience. Past venues have included the Live Oak Music Hall, Tulips FTW, and the recently-shuttered Post at River East.
The 2024-25 Sessions series will run October 16-March 25 at Tannahill's, and will present musicians and singers who are both new and familiar to Cliburn audiences. (Repertoire to be announced.) The complete schedule is:
Joseph Parrish will make his Cliburn debut this fall.Photo courtesy of The Cliburn
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Joseph Parrish, bass-baritone
Making his Cliburn Concerts debut, Parrish has been hailed by Seen and Heard International as "one of this new, exciting generation of singers who ignore the distinction between pop and classical. He is a connoisseur of song who can spin vocal gold… with singular smoothness and style.”
Gabriel Kahane and Caroline Shaw are teaming up.Photo courtesy of The Cliburn
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Caroline Shaw, viola/singer/composer & Gabriel Kahane, piano/singer/composer
Described on the Cliburn website as "quite possibly the coolest collaboration imaginable in classical music," this all-new pairing will feature the music and master storytelling of Kahane and genius musical mind of Shaw, who has contributed music to films and TV series including Beyoncé’s Homecoming, Tár, and Dolly Parton’s America.
The Cliburn presents Sir Stephen Hough
Photo courtesy of Sir Stephen Hough
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Sir Stephen Hough, piano
Hough is a frequent Fort Worth performer and prolific composer who always brings something new to his Cliburn appearances. (He was a 2022 Cliburn International Competition juror and composer of its commissioned work.)
Hsin-I Huang will perform with Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot.Photo courtesy of The Cliburn
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Simone Porter, violin + Blake Pouliot, violin + Hsin-I Huang, piano
All three young artists will make their Cliburn Concerts debuts: Violinist Porter, whose “silken-toned virtuosity puts her right up there with the finest interpreters of her generation” (Chicago Classical Review); Pouliot, whose 2019 debut album earned a Juno Award nomination for Best Classical Album; and Huang, who has made guest appearances at the Hollywood Bowl, LA Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, Aspen Music Festival, and more.
Tickets for individual concerts ($45 each or $150 for a table of four) and four-concert subscriptions ($160) are on sale now at cliburn.org/sessions.
