Gina Burgess Multi-Style Violinist
I really enjoyed my conversation with the inspiring multi-style violinist Gina Burgess. You’ll also see linked below her 2023 Catch-Up Episode as well. During this first 2021 episode she plays a couple of her original tunes, and at the end we did an improv back-and-forth across our Zoom call. Gina is a founding member of the Iqaluit-based Arctic rock band The Jerry Cans, is a four-time ECMA award winner with the band Gypsophilia, she fronts her own klezmer band Der Heisser, and is a regular collaborator in flamenco and Arabic music ensembles. Gina has toured Europe twice over with Tim Crabtree’s atmospheric ensemble; Paper Beat Scissors, and with folk-pop artist Gabrielle Papillon. Along with The Jerry Cans, Gina has performed and conducted youth workshops in Canada, Australia, Greenland, New Zealand, and Europe. Gina has a wonderful energy about her, and it was really interesting hearing about some of the youth workshops she has led, in addition to hearing about her creative process, her journey away from the Classical world, and her perspectives on the pandemic for performing artists. https://www.ginaburgessmusic.com/ ISNOW album
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