Wreckhouse International Jazz & Blues Festival Day 6 part 1

19th of July, 2009 GYPSOPHILIA @ MARTINI BAR (Above Peddler's On George Street). Halifax-based Gypsophilia is a group of seven young performers whose music straddles the jazz and indie worlds. The band started in 2004 as a Django Reinhardt-inspired project, but soon found itself mixing gypsy jazz with klezmer, funk, classical music, indie rock, and bebop, writing its own tunes and playing to sold out crowds. Gypsophilia's 2007 debut record Minor Hope struck a chord with music fans across Canada, selling out of its first pressing in a matter of months, and receiving an ECMA nomination for Best Jazz Recording. The latest record, Sa-Ba-Da-OW! (June  2009), offers up even more varied sounds, self-produced and recorded in Halifax's Echo Chamber studio, engineered under the legendary hand of Charles Austin (Joel Plaskett, Buck 65, Al Tuck, Matt Mays, Super Friendz, Garrett Mason) and Dave Ewenson (Brent Randall, Laura Peek). The band’s typical lineup of three guitars, violin, double bass, trumpet and piano is bolstered on the album with synthesizer, backbeat handclaps, impromptu gang vocals, percussion, and slide whistle. Ross Burns - guitar, Sageev Oore - piano/keyboards, Matt Myer - trumpet, Nick Wilkinson - guitar, Adam Fine - double bass, Alec Frith - guitar, Gina Burgess - violin, Daniel Oore - saxaphones. For more information pls visit: http://www.gypsophilia.org

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