Gordon Grdina
Gordon Grdina is a Canadian guitarist from Vancouver, British Columbia, whose style blends jazz, world music and avant-garde influences.[1] He is most noted for his 2018 album China Cloud, which won the Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019.[2]
In addition to fronting his own Gordon Grdina Trio and Gordon Grdina Septet, he has also recorded and performed with Peregrine Falls, Haram and Qalandar, and as a guitarist and songwriting collaborator with Dan Mangan.[3] With Mangan, Kenton Loewen and John Walsh, he was a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nominee in 2012 for "Post-War Blues" from Mangan's album Oh Fortune.[4]
He received a second Juno nomination for Instrumental Album of the Year for Prior Street at the Juno Awards of 2021.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Stuart Derdeyn, "Vancouver jazz guitarist and oud player Gordon Grdina showcases very different chops on two new releases". Vancouver Sun, February 21, 2024.
- ↑ Annie Howard and Etan Vlessing, "Juno Awards: Full List of Winners". The Hollywood Reporter, March 17, 2019.
- ↑ Alex Hudson, "Dan Mangan + Blacksmith Member Gordon Grdina's Guitar Stolen in Germany". Exclaim!, September 26, 2015.
- ↑ "Songwriter John K. Samson hears another Echo". Winnipeg Free Press, September 11, 2012.
- ↑ Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.
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