ALBUM:
Just Guitar
TAYLOR USED:
512-C Custom
SONG CLIPS:
Acoustic Cantor
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The Painter
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CONTACT INFO:
TapaString Music
31989 Hwy 12
Trinidad,
CO 81082
E-mail:
Tapa String @hotmail .com
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Innovators don't get neck cramps from backward glances. They latch onto their creative inspirations early and scamper up them like a hyperactive Jack up his
fabled beanstalk. Somehow, the absorbing, the cannibalizing, the tweaking, the happy accidents lead to the discovery of a unique voice. Meet Jaquie Gipson. The
native of Trinidad, Colorado began playing at 14, solidified her musical foundation with a music degree, and slipped into the current of such envelope pushers as
Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges, Preston Reed and Billy McLaughlin. Her playing is a blend of contemporary fingerstyle and modern rhythmic double tapping, in which both
hands roam the fretboard like a pianist over keys, hammering, kneading, gliding across the strings, plucking harmonics, drumming the soundboard, and incorporating
alternate tunings along the way to articulate her musical visions. Her hand movement is poetry in motion, which makes her performances as fun to watch as they are to hear.
Gipson says her compositional process typically evolves from an emotion, mood or memory. "As it comes together, it's as if I have not only written a song, but also
painted a picture or told a story. When I can bring that across to my audience, it's a feeling of great accomplishment."
In addition to performing at concerts, festivals, community events; and composing background music for promotional videos, Gipson has been teaching guitar at Trinidad
State Junior College since 1981. Just Guitar, her first CD, is a captivating collection of 15 original instrumentals.
"I remembered an old magician saying 'at no time will my fingers leave my hands!' I just had to wonder what sleight of hand Jaquie was performing when I heard
and saw her unique rhythmic double tapping acoustic magic."
— Lee Colburn,
The Black Rose Acoustic Society
"To watch her play is truly a joy… Jaquie's [performance] was at times energetic and vibrant, slow, soft and soothing at others…. But what makes her performances
special is that she doesn't take herself too seriously, making light of what she does, as if it WERE nothing too special. Hardly!!"
— George Rivera, Host,
After Hours Acoustic Gallery
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