Contact :
Gina Le Faux , 31, Hollins Lane, Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX6 2RX.
01422 316961 07899773537 gina@ginalefaux.com
For bookings and information contact :
Cherri Graebe, 01422 836416 07887951657 cherri@ginalefaux.com

Gina Le Faux -- English Baroque Fiddler

Gina Le Faux is one of the great fiddle players on the British folk/roots music scene. She is an international performer and has toured extensively in Britain, Europe and the USA. Gina also plays Viola and Mandolin and she is an exceptional singer and interpreter of songs old and new. A recent performance was described as ”White Soul” and her guitar playing was described as “Spellbinding”.

She grew up in Liverpool and was raised in an atmosphere of traditional music and learned her first songs as a child from her family. Gina has been playing traditional dance music for most of her life and was the last pupil of the late James Carmichael of Ballymena, traditional fiddle player and singer who contributed songs and tunes to Sam Henry’s “Songs of the people” collection and was an influence on Gina’s music when she was a teenager.

Gina has worked with most of the folk scene’s legendary performers including John Kirkpatrick, Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson and Dick Gaughan and can be heard on many CD’s, both solo and with other artists. Her solo albums have all received critical acclaim and three of them were nominated for the “Folk Roots” critics panel Album Of The Year. She was featured in the recent TV documentary about Cecil Sharp, “Sweet was the notes”. The TV programme used Folk South West’s, “Fanfare For The South West” for which Gina composed the linking themes and which was arranged and orchestrated by John Kirkpatrick.

Gina’s interest in 18th century dance music led Shirley Collins to describe her as a “Baroque Fiddler”.
Gina can be heard solo, with The Gina Le Faux Band, with the viola trio 3Va or with her dance band, Sweet Liberty.

She is a teacher of traditional fiddle, mandolin and guitar and has a wicked sense of humour.