I’m delighted and just totally honored to be joining my friends Breabach for their fall tour…coming right up! I’m filling in for the fab Megan Henderson while she takes a maternity leave.
I’m a huge fan of the band and it’ll be great fun to play this music :)
Hope to see you out there!
XJM
Hello hello hello!
My new recording Five Songs is now out and available wherever you listen to music! Produced by Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive, Josh Ritter) it’s a collection of three traditional ballads and two contemporary covers. I’m singing! (but don’t worry, I play the fiddle, too). This project was recorded slowly between August 2017 and January 2020, in between our respective touring schedules and other projects. I feel extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to make this with Sam, along with Sean Trischka & Dietrich Strause who all brought so much to this music. I’m extremely grateful to the Club Passim Iguana Music Fund for supporting this project.
It’s available for purchase on bandcamp or/and you can find it wherever you stream music.
Thanks so much for listening.
Take care x
Cover photo by Megan Barrett
Here's a new video from Màiri and I, recorded a couple months ago in Kansas City, thanks to the amazing team at D'Addario...a strikingly kind group of people.
D'Addario makes my favorite strings - Helicores. I think they are the best. That's what I think, for real.
Here's Mo Rùn Geal Òg or, My Fair Young Love.
Hey, all!
Seems like a silly thing to say, but I mis-placed my previous blog. Here's a new one. Stay put. Lots of fun gigs coming up with Màiri Chaimbeul, Owen Marshall, a new band called Apiary, Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards, and who knows what else in-between! 2018 looks fun, I think I'll keep her.
Here are a few good memories from the past year's touring.
See ya later!
x Jenna
Orkney Folk Festival
Jack - Swanbister Bay, Orkney
Bamburgh Castle, England
Catania, Sicily
Birthday cakes in Edinburgh
Zoe in Moab, UT. Sunrise hike to Delicate Arch
Ystad, Sweden
On the train to the Isle of Skye
4 a.m. at Kaustinen Folk Festival, Finland
Peter & Peter - Farncombe, England
Helsinki, Finland (photo from Jeni Magana)
LC & my synchronized swimming routine in the Mediterranean
Bar Harbor, Maine
Boston, MA (photo from Laura Cortese)