Six women show us the way.....

AndyW

Here are six talented violinists i'm listening too, as i start to learn GJ violin.

My pal, Seonaid Aitken - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmufEsX8cPE
Fiona Monbet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb_0RAy-_wE
Aurore Voilqué - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlETM__XayI
Daisy Castro - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z08PhRon2JE
Martine Gaumond - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX3T4axpCSM
Monica Acevedo de Pablo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12IiOpBG-7c

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Matt Cross

Caroline Pook from NYC, member of the Lower East Side Hot Club, really rips too!

klaatu

And there's the wonderful Josianne Laberge from Montreal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFLEKu9lNXM

ViperMad77

wonderful that you mention 14 year old, Daisy Castro.

she's a local talent here, my son went to school with her and we first heard Daisy play at school, years ago, when the violin looked so big in her small hands.. look at here now! GO DAISY!! We're going to catch her playing next week at a local orchard.

DFNW 2010 Samson Schmitt & Daisy Castro (4 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEfu6ixKgPE

Djangofest NW 2010- Daisy Castro w/ John Jorgenson, Jason Anick, Tony Ballog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRha_UFevw8

Craig Bumgarner

Eva Slongo!

http://youtu.be/T7e2i9rvQNc

Craig

Heretic

Who was that English bird who played in Battersea at Le Quecumber?

pinkgary

There's loads of them. You'll have to be more specific.

AndyW

hmm , i was just thinking its a bit like 'jazz' in general, there are relatively few women in GJ.
i think of our local Gj jam session, there are very few women players. maybe 2 or 3 in the last few years.
There must be hundreds of violin players in Glasgow, male & female, why are so few interested in GJ & swing ?? is it something to do with jazz/GJ being seen as "macho" or "competitive" ?

pinkgary

Women don't like to improvise, that's my conclusion.

After teaching hundreds of people to play guitar, the females never show any interest in improvising or "lead guitar". The ones that are creative always want to play n sing their own songs. They're far more into harmonized chord families, secondary dominants, fingerpicking & other singer-songwriter techniques than the males who just want to pentatonic their way round the neck as fast as they can.

There are exceptions to this, but they are few & too far between.

ViperMad77

AndyW wrote:

Fiona Monbet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb_0RAy-_wE
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a new artist to me, i'm really enjoying her music.

cheers

AndyW

yes, I read that Mlle. Monbet is/was a student of Didier Lockwood, but she now works, at times, with many of the big GJ guitar 'name'-players, and sounds mighty fine.....

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