{"id":14,"date":"2022-07-31T23:47:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T23:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g-fours.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:15:18","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/g-fours.com\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">With a solid background in classical music combined with the soul of a garage band, G-Fours aren\u2019t easily classified. Four friends who got together while the pandemic raged, striving to maintain their sanity, and rehearsing in a garage while wearing masks, G-Fours embrace the musical ethos of Duke Ellington\u2026\u201d<em>if it sounds good, it is good\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Gravitating to music that has its origins at borders, where cultures meet and create, G-Fours have become known in Ann Arbor for their passionate, engaging and accessible interpretations of Latin music and music from the North Sea regions \u2013 tangos, mambos, rhumbas, Danish reels and jigs, Norwegian polskas, English ballads, as well as covers of beloved favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The G-Fours are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Val Jaskiewicz (violin)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Joe Lange (viola)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Sonya Lewis (violin)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Margaret Weiss (cello)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/g-fours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cropped-7E6E081B-7CC9-4737-89AB-76E8ACAF7A46_1_105_c.jpeg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209\" style=\"width:545px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a solid background in classical music combined with the soul of a garage band, G-Fours aren\u2019t easily classified. 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