JïG (or JIIG) came into being when singer and concertina player Ian Robb (of Finest Kind and Friends of Fiddler’s Green) decided to record a long overdue “solo” album, and realized he didn’t have to look very far in his home town of Ottawa for some really top-notch help. The solo album quickly evolved into a group project, and the pre-existing trio of James Stephens, Ian Clark and Greg T. Brown, then known acronymously as JIG, took on a fourth member and a second “i”