Gina Sobel celebrates Redbud at The Stage
By WTJU
Date: 09/04/2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Multi-instrumentalist Gina Sobel will kick off the September 4 edition of Something New to celebrate her new EP, Redbud, out August 30. This is a free event, open to all. You can also listen to on the radio (91.1 FM) or on-line, and even video stream it at WTJU’s Facebook page or YouTube channel. But live performances always sound better with you as part of the studio audience. WTJU is located at 2244 Ivy Rd in Charlottesville, right next door to Vivace. There is plenty of parking, both in our lot as well as the Sentara lot next door.
Gina Sobel is a natural improviser. She is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and is sought after as a soloist with national and international artists for her dynamic and energetic performances on flute, sax and vocals. She is an award-winning songwriter and composer and brings together elements of funk, jazz and American folk music in her original music.
“We often think of “folk” music as rustic and rural. But I don’t think most of the folk live in the country anymore. Some do, but many more are in cities, suburban neighborhoods, medium sized towns where rents rise precipitously every year. Folk aren’t farming potatoes, they are working as nurses or in restaurants or as executive assistants. When we speak of folk music, we imagine a bucolic, pre-industrialized world, and the musical influences that came with that. But, folk music is really just music of the people, wherever and whoever they are. I write folk music for these folks. It’s got storytelling and tries to understand what it means to be human, and it also is filled with jazz, funk and elements of hip hop. It’s natural and it’s urban. It has pedal steel and synthesizers and flute and drums. It’s my experience of the world as a human, lifted up by the voices and hearts of the amazing musicians who joined me in making it all come to life.” – Gina Sobel
