CANCELED: Cordâme
Dear Friends,
Hill and Hollow Music regrets to announce the cancellation of the Cordâme concerts scheduled at Lake Forest on Saturday, January 31st and the Saranac Methodist Church on Sunday, February 1st.
In April 2025, the award-winning Montreal chamber music (jazz) ensemble applied for a U.S. visa to travel here for these concerts. In the nine months since then, no action has been taken on Cordâme’s visa application by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). We recently enlisted the assistance of staff members in the offices of Senator Gillibrand and Congresswoman Stefanik. Their efforts have been unsuccessful so far.
Should the visa application eventually be approved, we shall make every effort to reschedule these concerts which our North Country audience and Cordâme artists so greatly deserve. Please stay tuned.
Sincerely, Hill and Hollow Music Board of Directors
PS – We are not alone. This same problem is affecting presenters and artists all over the country. Read an article that appeared recently in The New York Times: “Trump’s Travel Restrictions Hurt U.S. Artists & Presenters”
More Info: 518-293-7613 and ambrown.hillholl@gmail.com
Cordâme is a Montreal-based ensemble formed in 2004 and led by composer and double bassist Jean Félix Mailloux. The group explores the fusion of classical music, jazz, and world influences, crafting evocative and richly textured soundscapes. Mailloux has curated a program blending his original compositions with reimagined works by Ravel, Debussy, and Satie, including Daphnis et Chloé, Gnossiennes, and Trois morceaux en forme de poires. His own pieces, such as À vol de colibri and Plante Caméléon, reflect Cordâme’s evolving sound while paying tribute to these great masters.
Cordâme has earned critical acclaim with 11 albums, international tours across Quebec, Canada, the U.S., and Asia, and awards including the 2025 Opus Prize, Concert of the Year in 2025 for Fabula Femina and Album of the Year in 2013 for Lieux imagines, and an ADISQ (Québec Association for the Recording, Concert and Video Industries) nomination for Da Vinci Inventions. Their Satie Variations tour was a finalist for the 2018 Rideau Touring Award, was the winner of Accès Culture Award 2016-1017 and featured over 55 performances around the province of Quebec.
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