Jenny Scheinman
Jenny Scheinman is a composer, violinist, singer, and writer of songs with and without words. She grew up on a homestead in the rural Northwest, attended Oberlin Conservatory and UC Berkeley, and has been touring since she was a teenager. She has collaborated extensively with Bill Frisell, Bruce Cockburn, Ani DiFranco, Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux, Nels Cline, Rodney Crowell, Robbie Fulks, and Marc Ribot, and has also garnered numerous high-profile arranging credits with Lucinda Williams, Bono, Lou Reed, Metallica and Sean Lennon. She is currently working on a multi-media project entitled Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait with film director Finn Taylor. She has released eight albums of original music: The Littlest Prisoner, Mischief & Mayhem, Jenny Scheinman, Crossing The Field, 12 Songs, Shalagaster, The Rabbi’s Lover and Live At Yoshi’s. The New York Times has praised her “distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified all at once by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues.”