Helen Gillet: Sunday, April 28, Lagniappe Stage, 1:40p

Helen Gillet’s cello is much more than just an instrument. It’s a visceral extension of her body and soul and her peripatetic mind, which ranges as far and wide as a childhood spent shuttling between Belgium, Singapore and Chicago, where she first picked up the cello at age nine.

Tonight, before a rapt audience at Tigermen Den, she invites us to...