Please Don't Tell

A dark cabaret trio consisting of piano and vocals, cello, and violin — based in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Pissed off and delightfully self aware songs that will leave you questioning your existence.

Please Don’t Tell is a dark cabaret trio of piano, vocals, cello, and violin. Prepare to be haunted by pissed off and delightfully self aware songs that will leave you questioning your existence.

Brainchild of songwriter, lead vocalist, and pianist Christina Fleming, Please Don’t Tell operated as a duo for years with Nicole Rimel accompanying her on cello and backing vocals; emerging from the pandemic in 2021 for a one-off show joined by violinist and vocalist Anna Hennessy, the three-piece idea stayed put.
The Charlottesville, VA-based trio offer an intriguing, off-kilter mix of bedtime anxieties, folk witchery, and parlor naughtiness from an unnatural concoction of acoustic instrumentation. Yet despite all the old time-y bugaboos creeping under the melodic buoyancy of their songs, there’s nothing particularly retro about the music other than the fact that it could very well have been reproduced centuries earlier—and with nary a missed note.

What the music lacks in drums, it usually makes up for in Fleming’s percussive piano and her high-ceilinged operatic vocal delivery. When taken together, the sound of the three ladies and their varied influences peers down from the rafters in the menacing shapes of classical and choral strains, decades of goth club exposure, and the unshakeable shadow of bluegrass mountain sounds seeping in from their Central Virginia locale.
In discovering that they are veteran performers of squalid punk holes and, well, The Kennedy Center, shouldn’t shock anyone paying attention.

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Members: Anna Hennesy, Christina Fleming, Nicole Rimel

Website: http://www.pleasedonttellmusic.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PleaseDontTellmusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pleasedonttellmusic/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PleaseDontTellMusic
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Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pleasedonttellmusic
Bandcamp: https://pleasedonttellmusic.bandcamp.com/

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