WHAT NOW | WBUR

WBUR - Fall Music Guide

Sept. 30

Boston-based cellist and composer Mike Block has been touted by Yo-Yo Ma as the "ideal musician of the 21st century.” Rounded out by Joe K. Walsh on mandolin and vocals and Zachariah Hickman on bass and vocals, the trio are releasing “What Now?,” a collection of playful and stoic reinterpretations of Appalachian folk and world beat music. Never before have we heard the combination of these three instruments traverse such a wide breadth of music so effortlessly; it’s equal parts Baroque, bluegrass and latin jazz, virtuosic all the same.