Gina Riggio » Uncategorized http://ginariggio.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:12:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Career Reboot http://ginariggio.com/career-reboot/ http://ginariggio.com/career-reboot/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:54:36 +0000 admin http://ginariggio.com/?p=508 I have regretfully decided, out of necessity, to take six months off from music to focus on my health and an upcoming series of surgeries.  Since being ill, my music has always been under par for what I feel I am capable of, and I have recently decided not to produce anything new until it is something I know I can be proud of. When I return in the spring, I anticipate a vast improvement in both my health and in my work.

Some of my plans upon returning to music include more jamming with Mysterytrain as well continuing my relationships with the original soul jazz trio Dirty Superb, and folk singer/songwriter Kerri Lee Smith. I also plan to begin work on a fifth solo album as well as some music videos and a U-Stream web cast, live from my basement! I’d also love to book an open mic tour for Summer 2012 to a bunch of awesome music cities, but right now that’s just a hair brained scheme ripe for enabling!

Of course, I’m going to keep working on restoring the Wurlitzer during my recovery and may be posting technical updates about that project.

My 2009 studio project, Ultraviolet Catastrophe, is now available at many popular music retailers and will be throughout my performing hiatus.  I’ve had to quit my job temporarily and am without income so I am hoping the CD sales do well.

Thank you, everyone, for all the love and support you have shown me during this difficult time in my life I will see you when I’m back and better than ever in Spring 2011! Peace!

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I’m also excited to release these new tracks ( just piano and vocals for now) for free download on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and on this website when the mixing is complete. There may or may not also be video included. A friend of mine filmed the session and I’ll have that up for free download as well, provided I don’t look like a huge dork. (I haven’t seen the footage yet.)

In other news, I’ve been discussing a collaboration between myself and the guitar/didge duo Steam City Riders. Mysterytrain, of course, is busy as always and has every weekend booked for the entire summer. Phew! I get tired just thinking about it. All in all, this is looking like it will be an exciting year for me.

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