After last year’s inspiring Virtual Chamber Music Series, it was wonderful to see Nashville’s always-innovative chamber ensemble chatterbird get back to live, in-person performances with a season that provided such a strong sense of place and personal connection. The lineup included dazzling performances with Haitian American songwriter and cellist Leyla McCalla at the National Museum of African American Music’s Roots Theater and the celebrated Greek laouto performer Vasilis Kostas at The Parthenon’s Naos Room, as well as a road trip to Butler University to perform Hello Gold Mountain — an original composition by Wu Fei about the lost Jewish community of Shanghai.
