Gina Villalobos

Performing at Bella Mia at 10 PM. 

Gina Villalobos is nothing if not dead serious. Her music is deeply rooted in time, place, and history. She’s the real thing: an artist, someone who can show you where you are.

Hailed as the new “Queen of Country Rock” and seemingly out of nowhere.  Gina has rapidly established a growing cult following in the UK and the US for her infectious, raw, simply irresistible, roots rock influenced songs. Knowing when to whisper and when to unleash, she finesses words into new meaning with the slightest inflection.  And for her live performances, where her willingness to expose herself completely takes her audience’s out of the moment, to a place up above the chaos, alone with their thoughts.  Eventually nothing else exists…it is a truly transcendent experience.

For those who have yet to experience Villalobos, it is enlightening to consider her in the company of artists like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Patty Smith, or Lucinda Williams – people so ill-fitted to categories that they had to carve out spaces of their own. But such comparisons are also misleading, because individualism is as essential as talent for admission to this group. Despite certain similarities to their work, Villalobos sounds like none of the above.