A Case of Joni
the early songs of Joni Mitchell
Discover the ProgrammeGina Fergione and Gabriel Keen both studied music at Dartington College of Arts before going on to pursue many and varied musical activities, from early music, choral and opera to rock, jazz, contemporary classical, and free improvisation. In 2019 they recorded a CD of French songs.
That project was put on hold by the lockdown of 2020, but in that time they had the idea of performing the whole of Joni Mitchell's album Blue to celebrate its 50th anniversary in June 2021. Since then they have expanded their repertoire considerably, drawing on Joni's output across ten albums from 1968 to 1979, and have extended the sonic palette to get closer to the flavour of the originals by incorporating guitar and Appalachian dulcimer.
Available for intimate venues, folk festivals, arts centres, and private concerts across the UK. Enquire about booking →
Drawing on ten albums across Joni Mitchell's most celebrated decade.
The duo is available for small concerts, folk festivals, private events, and arts salons. Their sound suits any room where acoustic music can breathe freely.
Gina is a singer, composer, vocational teacher, artist and festival and choir director, based in North London. She read music at Dartington College of Arts, specialising in performance and composition, where she received an upper second Bachelor of Arts degree. She completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Secondary) from Goldsmith College, University of London.
A highly accomplished and versatile Mezzo-Soprano and Composer with over 20 years of international performance experience across opera, experimental, and contemporary music. A critically acclaimed recording artist with a solo French-song album on Spotify and global radio features, celebrated for technical precision in demanding avant-garde repertoires (including John Cage and Luciano Berio). In 2023 she appeared on Child Ballads: The Final Six alongside Richard Thompson, Wesley Stace, Sivert Høyem, and Marissa Nadler, contributing a folk song of her own composition.
ginafergione.com →Gabriel Keen studied at Dartington College of Arts and London College of Music. He won 2nd prize in the 5th British Contemporary Piano Competition, and has recently recorded piano music by Brian Inglis for a Sargasso CD release. He has also worked internationally with a wide variety of jazz, rock and soul bands and singers including the Michele Drees Jazz Tap Project, Simon Picard Quartet, Jon Owen (ex-Global Village Trucking Company), and one of the current lineups of 80s band Imagination, featuring Errol Kennedy.
He has recorded with artists including The Tiger Lillies, Clare Foster, and Sue Holliday, Virginie Labour-Puiboube and Gina Fergione, with whom he performs French Art Song and the Joni Mitchell project "A Case of Joni." Gabriel is an accompanist for jazz, pop and classical singing classes at the City Lit in London.