Two musicians will fuse guitar and cello, as well the use of technology, during their musical performance on Thursday.

The cello-guitar-fusion group, Montana Skies, will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday on the Dvorak Concert Hall stage in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

The group is made up of members Jonathan Adams, guitar player, and Jennifer Adams, cello player.

Jennifer Adams said the music Montana Skies plays is unique.

“It’s something different than they think of when they think about cello and guitar,” Jennifer Adams said. “It’s much more exciting then they are probably thinking.”

Jennifer Adams said they put a twist on music.

The group will record bits of their music during their performance. These bits will be played simultaneously with the rest of their performance. 

“We started creating our own style of music and we call that classical fusion,” Jennifer Adams said. “The fusion part comes in from the kinds of music we are playing and the conversion of Pink Floyd, Charlie Daniels and others.”

Dan Crews, the director of patron services, said the members of Montana Skies are great musicians.

“They are taking music that means a lot to them and giving it a new presentation,” Crews said. 

Crews said they like to mix different genres of music.

“They had this twist on the way that they perform some of the music,” Crews said. “They have a different approach, kind of a urban-rock feel. The way the take classical music and give it a rock feel, or they’ll take classic rock songs and give them a classical feel.”

Jennifer Adams said they also play their instruments with a different twist.

“I play a six-string electric cello and that is really unique cello that I stand with and we are also using technology with our Mac computer,” Jennifer Adams said. “Jon is layering our sound live, so we are looping things and recording and playing back.” 

Jennifer Adams said the group started in college.

“We meet each other when we were studying classical music and we wanted to play together,” Jennifer Adams said. “We discovered a common thread that we both wanted to basically rock out, do did things like classic rock and jazz fusion.”

Jennifer Adams said audience members like the use of technology.

“Most of the time they are really blown away by it, because they don’t expect to hear that much sound from two people and the way we are doing is still performance and for audiences,” Jennifer Adams said. “They seem to really like it, we explain it in concert and we show things up close afterwards.”

Jennifer Adams said they will show audience the technology after the show.

“For tech nerds and geeks like us, that is kind of fun too, that there is this aspect to what we are doing,” Jennifer Adams said. “We explain it after the shows and people like that too.”

Crews said this is a new way to see music.

“It is a new age approach to classical music,” Crews said. 

Jennifer Adams said they love playing for the audience.

“Connecting with people and that special energy that you can only get from live shows, you know creating something that is special and in that moment,” Jennifer Adams said.

Admission to the show is $10.

Jennifer Adams said she hope audience members like the performance.

“I think it is going to be unique for every person,” Jennifer Adams said. “I hope we impact them some how, whether they feel joy or excited, they feel that something special happened and we touched them.”

 Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.