Gina Burgess Presents an Exclusive Quintet Premiere at the Halifax Central Library

For this year's Obey Convention, Gina Burgess has created a new and unique piece which she will present at the Halifax Central Library. 

Gina is a four-time ECMA award winner with the gypsy-jazz outfit Gypsophilia, fronts her own klezmer band Der Heisser, is one fifth of the Iqaluit-based Arctic rock band The Jerry Cans, and is a regular collaborator in flamenco and Arabic music ensembles. 

Inspired by the minimalistic compositional tradition of Terry Riley and Steve Reich, Gina has also infused elements of traditional Inuit throat singing, poetry, trance, and Gregorian/Indian chant in her latest composition.

The quintet will feature Gina (violin) Susanne Brown (viola) Norm Adams (cello) Lukas Pierce (double bass) and Janice Jackson (voice).

The premiere will take place Halifax on Thursday, May 24 at the Paul O’Regan Hall at the Halifax Central Library. 

The show starts at 6pm. Admission is free.

Gina Burgess and Matt Myer with Gypsophilia at the Halifax Jazz Festival July 16, 8:30pm

Gina Burgess and Matt Myer play with Gypsophilia at the Jazz Festival

photo: Gypsophilia website

Sunday, July 16, 8:30pm
Waterfront Main Stage
With The Mellotones

FREE CONCERT!

Halifax-based Gypsophilia is a group of six performers (including Talent Trust scholarship recipients Matt Myer and Gina Burgess) playing original high-energy jazz that is by turns angular, sweet, nostalgic, modern and raucous. 

In recent years Gypsophilia has become a formidable touring outfit, regularly crisscrossing the continent and playing to sold-out crowds all over Canada and the US. Their killer live shows and danceable, genre-bending sound have made them an audience favourite at major festivals and small clubs alike. With a combination of serious musicianship, humour and showmanship they are capable of enchanting a sit-down crowd one moment, and whipping people into a dancing, clapping, singing frenzy the next.

You can find more information about Gypsophilia at http://www.gypsophilia.org/

Open Waters Festival with Gina Burgess and Janice Jackson from January 6-10, 2017

Open Waters Festival

January 6-10, 2017

Saturday, Jan. 7: 

Gina Burgess Trio, 10:45 PM at the Company House.

Sunday, Jan. 8: 

Vocalypse Productions Janice Jackson, PROTEST, 7:30 PM at Dunn Theatre.

The Open Waters Festival of New and Improvised Music celebrates the confluence of musical traditions, the mixing of the spontaneous and the calculated, the spray between the traditional and experimental.

Dalhousie Arts Centre Box Office: https://kil-dacweb-3.cohn.dal.ca/online

Further information for all 14 events can found at: http://www.upstreammusic.org/