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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 tribute, but soon found itself mixing gypsy jazz with klezmer, funk, classical music, indie rock, and bebop, composing original music, and selling out shows all over Canada and abroad. The seven-piece Gypsophilia features Alec Frith, Nick Wilkinson and Ross Burns on guitars; Sageev Oore on piano, accordion and keyboards; Matt Myer on trumpet;Adam Fine on double 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 klezmer outfit Der Heisser and improvising guitarist Jeff Torbert. Oore has been a featured soloist with Symphony Nova Scotia and a member of the Woodchoppers Association, while Burgess has also played with Symphony Nova Scotia and with the Maria Osende Flamenco Company. With their mix 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. Taluna is a band formed by four musicians with different roots and backgrounds, moving their first steps in 2008 in Turin, Italy - an immigrant’s city which has become a melting pot of Central European and North African cultures. "This is the incredible result of different artistic formations of the four Italian musicians, which have their roots not only in Piedmont, but also in Apulia, Abruzzo, Liguria, even beyond Italian borders in places such as France and Eastern Europe." Gaia Mobilij is center stage with her accordion, the old “lira Calabrese” and her warm and evocative voice; the violin of Marco Ghezzo exudes elegant notes that make the audience dream and dance; Luca Russo with his classical guitar accompanies every different style, launching riffs worthy of the best jazz soloist; and finally the tambourine of eclectic Giuseppe Leone emanates the vibrant pulse of the group, with continuous reminder of the taranta of Salento. PFS Member - $0.00 Non-PFS Member - $10.00  06/15/13 >> go there
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