APRIL 7 & 8 SHOWS in Cambridge/Somerville
HALLLO! it's almost April! That means my April SHOWS are upon us! Come to my friends' Jay and Ted's house for an intimate concert on Sat. 4/7 (email me if interested!). Then visit the Pindrop Sessions at Aeronaut Brewery in Somerville for a Jenn co-bill with Lyle Brewer the following night 4/8. Alec Spiegelman (bass clarinet) and Christopher McDonald (piano) join me for both shows!
The days are longer, the snow is melting, the bunnies are lopping and my heart is ready for flowers and leaves and greeeeeeen things! I don't know how to begin to tell you about the other hat I wear most days now: the job I have taken on as executive director of a small non-profit called COGdesign! The Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design provides free landscape design to under-resourced communities in greater Boston by matching landscape designers/architects who work pro bono with community groups who apply to us with projects which need design assistance. I love this work. I was searching for a way to give back. A way to move from affluent neighborhoods into ones which could never afford green space.
Most of my COG time is devoted to raising money in one way or another. And I look forward to sliding into a more graceful synergy with music. At the moment I lurch between songs and plants, songwriting and placemaking, poetry and environmental justice. Fortunately, it turns out that the freelance musician life prepares you rather nicely for the non-profit world!
In the meantime, even as most of my time goes to this new endeavor, I find that I am drawn more than ever to the guitar and the uke - and most importantly - to the rare and divine moments when I get to play with melody and words and chords simultaneously. Those are the magic times. And even though I don't get into that zone very often right now, I know I will again, soon because I am sooooo excited about the possibiities. And I have so many fragments of wordsmusic phraseschords to put together.
Thanks for staying with me.
Hope to see you out there.
Hope those of you who are listening to Avocet are enjoying it!
cheers,
Jennifer
The days are longer, the snow is melting, the bunnies are lopping and my heart is ready for flowers and leaves and greeeeeeen things! I don't know how to begin to tell you about the other hat I wear most days now: the job I have taken on as executive director of a small non-profit called COGdesign! The Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design provides free landscape design to under-resourced communities in greater Boston by matching landscape designers/architects who work pro bono with community groups who apply to us with projects which need design assistance. I love this work. I was searching for a way to give back. A way to move from affluent neighborhoods into ones which could never afford green space.
Most of my COG time is devoted to raising money in one way or another. And I look forward to sliding into a more graceful synergy with music. At the moment I lurch between songs and plants, songwriting and placemaking, poetry and environmental justice. Fortunately, it turns out that the freelance musician life prepares you rather nicely for the non-profit world!
In the meantime, even as most of my time goes to this new endeavor, I find that I am drawn more than ever to the guitar and the uke - and most importantly - to the rare and divine moments when I get to play with melody and words and chords simultaneously. Those are the magic times. And even though I don't get into that zone very often right now, I know I will again, soon because I am sooooo excited about the possibiities. And I have so many fragments of wordsmusic phraseschords to put together.
Thanks for staying with me.
Hope to see you out there.
Hope those of you who are listening to Avocet are enjoying it!
cheers,
Jennifer
- APRIL 7 & 8 SHOWS in Cambridge/Somerville
- April 8 show in Somerville
- 2.10 Plymouth MA w/Kris Delmhorst!
- Wintery Songs shows tonight and tomorrow!!
- Wintery Songs tour coming up!
- Video for "Build you a Barn!"
- blueberries are ripe
- Milton Arts Center Fri Jun 2 - 7:30 show
- THURS 5/25 Northampton, MA w/Rose & Kris
- Co-bill with Ana Egge SAT MAY 6
- NPR interview with Lisa Mullins WBUR
- VIDEOS and AVOCET cd release tour dates!