Gypsophilia: 8th Annual Program – Jazz Song IMA Nominee

Contact: Adam Fine
6492 Liverpool St.
Halifax, NS B3L 1Y4, Canada
902-492-2225 x4

adam (at) gypsophilia.org
www.gypsophilia.org

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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. And next to some classic swing grooves, be prepared to find klezmer, funk, reggae, tango and game show music.

The seven-piece Gypsophilia features Alec Frith, Nick Wilkinson and Ross Burns on guitars; Sageev Oore on piano and keyboards; Matt Myer on trumpet; Adam Fine on bass and Gina Burgess on violin. Frith, Myer and Burns all play with the roots-Reggae band Verbal Warnin’; Myer is an ECMA and Juno winner with the Johnny Favorite Swing Orchestra; Fine plays regularly with Bend the River and improvising ensemble TFC. Oore has been a featured soloist with Symphony Nova Scotia and a member of the Woodchoppers Association, while Burgess has also played with the Symphony and with the Maria Osende Flamenco Company.

On the heels of the album’s June 19th release date, Gypsophilia will be embarking on a national tour which includes most major jazz festivals in Canada, from Victoria to St. John’s.

Quick highlights:

• train tour to Ontario and Quebec (Summer 2008)
• 3 CBC broadcast recordings
• headlining gigs at Atlantic Jazz Festival, Rimouski Festi Jazz International, Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival, Ashkenaz Festival of New Jewish Culture, Indian River Festival, Deep Roots and many others
• nominations for 2 Nova Scotia Music Awards (Best Jazz Recording 2007, Best Group Recording 2008), and an ECMA (Best Jazz Recording 2008)
• extensive national airplay on CBC
• showcases at OCFF, Ontario Contact, Contact East, ECMA, Nova Scotia Music Week
• consistently sold-out dance parties
• film score for Jeff Wheaton’s film “The Lullaby of Mike Bossy” (screenings at the Atlantic Film Festival and on CBC TV)