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Gailin Lee's voice in violin land like a bomb, an offering of both clarity and gladness that

can still be mustard in this midwinter, this upended Christmas season. She first came to the attention

of many when she won NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest in 2016. She's now toured in 45 states and

nine countries and recorded four albums.

Gailin Lee moves through the world in an electric wheelchair and she holds her violin like a

cello and her bow as if she were playing a bass, the way she and an ingenious teacher

discovered to enable her to play it all. She first fell in love with the cello when she was in

fourth grade, but because of the disability she was born with that gives her tiny and as she says

bendy limbs, she couldn't navigate even the smallest violin in the ordinary way. So much of what

she's learned through life in her body lands as wisdom right now.

I'm Chris to tip it and this is on being Gailin Lee was born and raised and lives in Duluth,

Minnesota. Her latest album is The Living Room Sessions recorded from her home in 2020.

Here we are speaking in our pandemic year in our pandemic winter. I'm in my what my colleagues

call my recording cave in my basement den and my house where are you? I'm in our we have his studio

apartment so it's really just one room so I kind of set up a meat shift recording area in front of our

big window like it's such a tiny apartment but behind a big red leather chair that we sit in at

night and right next to the bed. So it's it's all one thing you can see if you were looking at it,

you can see our kitchen table behind me. Right okay so you grew up with a lot of music in the world

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