Excited states in the odd-A nucleus 71Ga have been studied via the 70Zn(7Li,α2n)71Ga fusion-evapora-tion reaction with incident beam energies of 30 and 35 MeV.The level scheme is established up to spin Iπ=(29/2+)and an excitation energy~6.6 MeV.A previously known sequence built on the 9/2+state is extended as a novel ro-tational band originating from the v(g29/2)alignment.Furthermore,a negative-parity sequence is also reported.The observed energy levels of 71Ga have been interpreted in the framework of the nuclear shell model(SM).