Gypsophilia : Halifax

ROots RoOm 2012 ECMA

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:55:28 +0000

Moncton, New Brunswick
The Roots Room Stage – 10:25 pm

Dialogue Performance

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:51:04 +0000

Last night and this morning we were involved in a great event for Halifax high school students – It was a concert/performance one day and then a question and answer period the next with the idea of encouraging the audience to follow their creative impulses into a life making art. Shauntay Grant, Zuppa Theatre, The Heavy Blinkers, Bill Wood of Picnic Face and Asif Illyas of MIR all took part. Thanks everyone for having us as part of it. It was a serious pleasure!

Frye Festival – Moncton, NB

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:11:45 +0000

811 Main Street, Moncton, NB

ECMAs in Moncton

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:34:32 +0000

Moncton, New Brunswick

E.C.M. Award Nominations!

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:28:54 +0000

East Coast Music Award nominations were announced today and we snagged three of ‘em. Bam! Constellation is up for BEST GROUP RECORDING and BEST JAZZ RECORDING and our video “Agricola & Sarah” is up for VIDEO OF THE YEAR. Exciting times! The video award is a public vote so you can help us try and win it if you like… We’ll let you know once the voting opens. The ECMAs are in Moncton this coming April… gonna be fun, no doubt.

Becky Siamon, Paper Beats Scissors

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:59:50 +0000

Couple of friends or ours have new albums coming out – just got a listen to the new Paper Beats Scissors album which is coming out this spring and it sounds awesome! He recorded it in Montréal, Sydney Smith did the artwork and Forward is releasing it so it is like Constellation’s cousin album – have a listen here. Also, Becky Siamon is a great singer who is a friend of ours that we’ve often shared stages with. She is releasing her first record Breakfast Epiphanies this week with a show at the IDOW festival in Halifax. It also sounds great and a bunch of us played parts on it (Matt, Nick, Gina, Adam and Alec to be precise)- check it). Congratulations to Becky and Tim on putting out some good music!

Agricola & Sarah Award, Ham Jam, and the USA

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:57:41 +0000

I don’t know if we ever shared this news with you all – our video Agricola & Sarah won a gold award in the animated film category at the California Film Awards in 2010. I just stumbled across that again today. Nice work Jason and Sydney who lovingly made this piece … In other news, we just confirmed that we’ll be part of the line up at a cool festival in Kars, NB called Ham Jam this June. We also have exciting news about some touring in the USA that we’ll be able to tell you more about soon!

Ham Jam

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:49:51 +0000

Camp Pascobac, Kars, New Brunswick

$50 for the whole weekend (The tickets include over 20 musical guests, parking, camping space, Cabins [first come first serve], and of course the pig roast!)

“The Ham Jam Music Festival is a quaint little festival who’s roots run deep in the rich soils of the Saint John River Valley. Established in 2010, the Ham Jam Music Festival is like no other in the East Coast. A family like atmosphere where people of all ages and social backgrounds can gather to celebrate music, life, and the great outdoors. The Ham Jam Music Festival aims to raise money for one of the oldest summer camps in NB through the waves of music that define the Maritimes”

Sounds nice, eh?

YAS Ball

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:36:28 +0000

Wicked time at the YAS Ball last night (semi-formal university masquerade bash). Anyone with any photos of the party should send them to ross@gypsophilia.org so I can post them. It reminded me of all the great gigs we’ve played at King’s College in the past, including one at the Wardroom very early on in our life as a band… the audience was crazy and we were paid in pitchers of beer. Hope we get to do that all again soon!

YAS ball, Edmonton video

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:56:50 +0000

Here is a video I just came across that was produced at the Jazz Fest in Edmonton this summer past. The first half features a wild Japanese saxophonist’s group – the Kazutoki Umezu KIKI BAND – and the second half features some interview and performance footage of us. Reminded me what a great time we had at that festival and in that city. Among other magic, that was where the “slow elbow” was caught on film.
Also exciting is that We’ve been asked to play at King’s College’s annual semi-formal dance, the YAS Ball this week. Going to be a blast – that school knows how to have a good time.