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Artist
Ingrid Gatin
12+ albums
alternativesinger-songwriterscanadarootsfemale artists
about
A little bit gypsy, a little bit soul, a little bit of a lot. Ingrid Gatin makes eclectic beautiful with accordion, piano, vocals, handclaps, footstomps, and tambourine. Cast as one of Winnipeg's up-and-coming singer/songwriter/arrangers, Ingrid is getting ready to take Canada by storm. Three years ago, Ingrid left the intimate music scene of Brandon, jumping into Winnipeg's vibrant music scene, where she hooked up with super cool old time roots/bluegrass band The Magnificent 7's, adding her voice and playing mandolin for two years. She was offered a tour with the multi-arts collective Companie J'amusement, and signed on as musical muse, doing the spring 2008 tour of Western Canada. The rest of the year has been a growing experience: small festivals around the city and the province, The Brandon Folk Fest and The Winnipeg Folk Fest Young Performers stage, writing music and performing at the Winnipeg Fringe Fest 2008. After years of intensive musical training, starting piano at age four, with classical vocal and choral training, jazz, musicals, rock bands, and almost everything in between, Ingrid started writing and performing her own songs on piano, mandolin, and a little more than a year ago picked up the accordion. Ingrid's work has a french café feel with gypsy/balkan suggestions, among a variety of genres like the blues, jazz, and soul. Ingrid is usually seen on stage with back-up singers and percussion, and often with additional instruments: bass, mandolin, ukulele,
