{"id":318,"date":"2009-08-07T12:31:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T18:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-08-07T12:31:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T18:31:39","slug":"ingrid-gatin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2009\/08\/07\/ingrid-gatin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingrid Gatin"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jenny Henkelman
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\nIngrid Gatin\u2019s got a piano, an accordion, and a tear-jerkingly beautiful voice. All of these things are perfectly suited to the average living room recital or concert at the caf\u00e9 down the street. But something in Ingrid Gatin keeps pulling her out of her comfy Wolseley environs. To a cabin in the Saskatchewan woods; to a train crossing the lonely stretches of Northern Ontario; to a transformed gallery space in the Exchange.
\nGatin\u2019s first migration took place when her family moved from small-town Saskatchewan to Brandon, where\u00a0 started up in the musical way early. She\u2019s studied piano since age four, and says she\u2019s always benefited from a \u201chugely musical\u201d family. \u201cThere\u2019s always singing and music playing going on on both sides of my family,\u201d she says. \u201cI was always involved with choirs. A good, wholesome music upbringing.\u201d
\nWith that groundwork laid, Gatin was soon sucked into the music scene in Winnipeg when she moved here after high school two and a half years ago. Her friend Ida Sawabe played stand-up bass in a bluegrass band, and soon dragged Gatin along to practice. \u201cThey gave me a mandolin and they said, \u2018Here\u2019s how you play C and G and D. There, you know every bluegrass song!\u2019 Ting, ting, ting! And then I was in a bluegrass band, the Magnificent Sevens.\u201d
\nMaybe some would\u2019ve been happy to be in a super cool roots band, plucking away on the mandolin, but not long after, Gatin added another instrument to her repertoire. \u201cI love the accordion. There\u2019s nothing better. I wanted to be an accordion player, so I bought one. I took two lessons and then I just played it.\u201d
\nEven in these days of dwindling government funding, there are grants available\u2014but if you want a chance at them, you\u2019ve got to put in some elbow grease. Or at least some serious paperwork. \u201cThey make you work for it\u2026 you have to jump through hoops\u201d Gatin says of the various grant programs she\u2019s benefited from, including one that paid for her to spend a month in a cabin in Saskatchewan writing new material.
\nIt\u2019s Gatin\u2019s determination and adventurous thinking that\u2019s taking her places\u2014literally. In June, she and Montreal\u2019s Miss Emily Brown took an eastbound tour by train. A pricey train ticket can become free when you arrange to play shows in the recreation car along the way. Of course, you have to wade through a good amount of bureaucracy before the \u201cAll aboard!\u201d, but Gatin says it\u2019s well worth it. \u201cWe developed a great relationship with VIA and are going to do a few longer train trips, and play music in more of Canada.\u201d\u00a0 Though Brown and Gatin had never met before Brown flew out to Winnipeg at the start of the tour (they met first over MySpace), the tour went swimmingly. \u201cEmily and I were different enough to have a diverse show with just the two of us.\u201d
\nIt was a bit of a scramble to get her EP, Tin Heart, ready in time for the tour, but ready it was. The five-song disc is waltzy and heartfelt, and places heavy emphasis on Gatin\u2019s vocals and the vocals of her background singers. \u201cI\u2019m really interested in the human voice as an instrument,\u201d she says. \u201cI like to keep the focus on the voice and the harmonies.\u201d
\nNow that she\u2019s back in town, Gatin\u2019s keeping busy. In July she played a show at ace art with Bill Beso. The show was designed to take advantage of the sonic and spatial potentials of Alexandre David\u2019s installation. \u201cThe installation piece takes up the whole gallery in a big curve shape, and ace art was looking for artists to explore this space in different ways. Everyone was into it. We all danced, I crawled under the structure and played eerily from underneath. There was candlelight, slow dancing, and improvised percussion, as well as of course the tuba, and a tambourine,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was super.\u201d
\nTrain tours, experimental performance art\u2014at this rate, Ingrid Gatin might just take over the world. Or maybe just more of our fair country. \u201cMy next dream tour idea involves crossing Canada in support of my new album, Broken Tambourine, where I will be touring small portions with several different musicians.\u201d And there\u2019s no doubt she\u2019ll make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jenny Henkelman Ingrid Gatin\u2019s got a piano, an accordion, and a tear-jerkingly beautiful voice. All of these things are perfectly suited to the average living room recital or concert at the caf\u00e9 down the street. But something in Ingrid Gatin keeps pulling her out of her comfy Wolseley environs. To a cabin in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[70,360,455,861],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-august","tag-folk","tag-ingrid-gatin","tag-singer-songwriter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}