Enion Pelta-Tiller goes on a Dedicated Dig during Folk & Beyond
By WTJU
Date: 09/28/2023
Time: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Enion Pelta-Tiller (Taarka, Elephant Revival) will stop by Folk & Beyond this Thursday to go track by track through her quartet’s upcoming release, Dedicated Dig, out October 2. Folk & Beyond is heard Thursday afternoon from 4-7 at 91.1FM and streaming at wtju.net.
Enion Pelta-Tiller began classical violin studies at age 3, but her education was always supplemented by improvisation lessons from her jazz guitarist father. By 16 she had taught herself to compose impromptu melodies in styles from classical sonatas to East Indian ragas and jazz standards. Enion attended Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD, working towards a viola performance degree, while also studying english at Johns Hopkins.
Eventually she landed in NYC, where she performed cutting edge music straddling punk, free jazz, and classical with various local musicians, and landed a gig with the crown prince of Hungary’s New Wave music scene, Menyhart Jeno, as the violinist in Mr Con and the Bioneers. She traveled to Hungary in the summer of 2001 to play the main stage at the Pepsi Sziget, Europe’s largest music festival, playing immediately before Run DMC and Morcheeba.
Upon her return she focused more on composing and performing the music she and David had been working on together, and the two decided to make a life of it. Enion has performed onstage with Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Vince Welnick of the Grateful Dead, Darol Anger, Darrol Scott, John Cowan, Fareed Haque and many others.
