6/14/26, 7 PM — The Walls Vineyards
WWCMF will add your name and the number of tickets you purchase to the concert guest list. We will NOT send physical tickets.
Doors open one hour before the performance.
Doors open one hour before the performance.
From Carnegie Hall to Coachella, the GRAMMY-nominated Westerlies have upended presumptions of the brass tradition to create music that is “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” (NPR Music). Comprising Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands on trumpet and Andy Clausen and Addison Maye-Saxon on trombone, the ensemble has relentlessly composed, arranged, adapted, recorded, and toured over the past fifteen years with the precision of a string quartet, the audacity of a rock band, and the charm of a family sing-along.
The Westerlies are making their second WWCMF appearance. The first was the 2017 Winter Festival. Many of you were there. More than a foot of snow fell on the day of their travel to Walla Walla from New York City. Flight after flight of the ALW leg from Seattle was canceled that day until a miracle, the 10 PM flight managed to land at about 1 AM. Your author picked up the group at the airport and accompanied them to their digs, a wonderful ranch on the outskirts of town. The wonderful ranch proved as distant as New York City itself, located at the end of a half-mile driveway that at 1:15 AM remained undisturbed, unplowed, invisible, and impassible in the sensible sedan rented by WWCMF for The Westerlies. In true Walla Walla fashion, a phone tree and a neighbor with a truck later, the driveway was plowed and the four exhausted musicians were soundly asleep by 2 AM, ready to astound the Festival audience with their gorgeous and generous musicianship.
Here we are about a decade later, The Westerlies poised to take Walla Walla by storm in warmer times. Here’s hoping for easier travel! We return to The Walls Winery for a special performance that will leave you awestruck.
Artists: Andy Clausen, trombone; Addison Maye-Saxon, trombone; Riley Mulherkar, trumpet; Chloe Rowlands, trumpet