Enion Pelta-Tiller’s music is mythic. Her songs are a major arcana that help make meaning of the wild world around us. In them, you might meet a heroine at the dawn of the apocalypse, a talking robin, or an advice-giving river.  An extended-range violinist/fiddler, singer, and composer, Enion is a musical free spirit who moves fluently and fluidly through jazz, bluegrass, Brazilian music, and anything else she can get her hands on. Apt to “rain pure bliss on audiences” (Flagstaff Live) with her violin, she also sings in 4 languages with a “lovely, cracked voice” (Grateful Web) that’s been compared to Bjork, Regina Spektor, and Norah Jones. A founding member of celebrated progressive folk group Taarka, with whom she has released 8 studio albums, she is also in demand as an improvising fiddler by groups at forefront of the national bluegrass and jazz scenes.  Enion's 2022 string-based album , Dedicated Dig, featuring Darol Anger, Shane Endsley (Kneebody),  Joy Adams (Big Richard) and other Colorado-based musical forces of nature, is a passionate tribute to the music of her childhood - Django Reinhardt and the Turtle Island String Quartet. 

Music has taken Enion all over the globe,  from Amsterdam's Concertgebouw to NPR's Tiny Desk in Washington, DC to perform with artists as diverse as Linda Ronstadt, Mark O'Connor, Sean Jones, and John Cowan. Most recently, Enion is a guest on Darol Anger’s latest album, “Diary of a Fiddler 2: The Empty Nest.” In 2025, she appeared as a soloist with the Boulder Philharmonic, performing Darol Angers “Coal Burnin’ Grease Fire,” an improvisational treatment Ornette Coleman’s “Trinity: Fantasy for Solo Violin,” and her own arrangement of Cuje Bertrman’s “Blackbird Says to the Crow.” Her “Jazzicana” quintet has performed to a sold out crowd at Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts Gordon Gamm theater.  She teaches Jazz and American Roots Strings at CU Boulder, and Songwriting and Multi-style violin at CU Denver. 

The Enion Pelta-Tiller Quintet plays “Jazzicana” -  spacious and beautiful Americana and gospel influenced melodies interlaced with jazz-derived rhythmic and harmonic concepts. Enion often performs this original music with Colorado Jazz  luminaries Dawn Clement, Dru Heller, John Gunther, and  Shane Endsley.  The Enion Pelta-Tiller Quartet is a string quartet in the tradition of the Turtle Island Quintet, performing jazz and swing music arranged for improvising string players. Enion performs as a solo artist, offering an enticing mixture of her original songs and tunes written for the fiddle in a variety of styles.