For almost a year, the group performed ambiguously under the names "Celli" and "Cellodarity" and eventually, exclusively "The Portland Cello Project.
At this performance, the group surprised Rogers by dedicating to him a cover of John Denver's "Take Me Home Country Roads" with special guest Holcombe Waller singing.
Since 2009 the group has gone on numerous headlining tours, and played a wide variety of venues, from punk clubs like Dempsey's in Fargo, North Dakota,[8] to the Bowery Ballroom in New York City,[9] to concert halls like the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts[10] and Millennium Park in Chicago.
[12] Musicians the group has collaborated with include: Peter Yarrow, The Corin Tucker Band, Eric Bachmann, The Dandy Warhols, Storm Large, Dan Bern, Mirah, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, Justin Power, Weinland, The Builders and the Butchers, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Horse Feathers, Holcombe Waller, Shenandoah Davis, Kaylee Cole, The 1900s, Emily Wells, and many others.
Performing cellists include or have included: Diane Chaplin, Skip vonKuske, Gideon Freudmann, Kevin Jackson, Douglas Jenkins, Lauren McShane, Julian Kosanovic, Sage Coy, Heather Blackburn, Justin Kagan, David Eby, Collin Oldham, Anna Fritz, M Allegra Sauvage, Sonja Myklebust, Galen Cohen, Ashia Grzesik, Samantha Kushnick, Robert Brooks, Brian Bruner, Emma Wood, Melissa Bach, Sarah Young, Tony Rogers, Heather Broderick, Jessie Dettwiler, Erin Winemiller, Jenette Mackie, and Noah Seitz.
Brass and Woodwind players have included: John Whaley, Teagen Andrews, Jen Harrison, Jourdan Paul, Jill Coykendall, Leander Star, and Elise Blatchford.