Jenny Bird & Michael Mandrell
Jenny Bird
Jenny Bird has been called “the most passionate performer in the new folk genre.” The stage is her second home where she’s been presenting her original songs since the age of ten. Professionally managed as a teenager, Jenny lived and recorded in Germany and Belgium. For the last 20 years, she’s toured widely and consistently, playing festivals and clubs across Europe, Canada, and the United States. Her recordings feature such guests as blues virtuoso Rory Block and rainbow warrior Eliza Gilkyson. And Jenny has appeared throughout the country, performing on the same stage with Sheryl Crow, John Prine, Iris Dement, JJ Cale, Blues Traveller, Sinead O’Connor, Indigo Girls and Sarah McLachlan, to name a few. Jenny’s music leaves her audiences touched, transformed, inspired and singing all the way home.
Micheal Mandrell
Michael Mandrell's first introduction to guitar began at the young age of 9 when, after receiving a guitar for Christmas, his mother noticed a natural inclination and arranged for him to take lessons down the street with a neighborhood folk guitarist. Michael honed his open-tuning guitar craft in the early 80's on the Texas folk circuit, performing with and opening for many prominent and upcoming artists such as Nancy Griffith, Lyle Lovett, Townes Van Zandt and many others. He has produced and recorded over 6 albums, and continues to collaborate on numerous projects in film, dance, art and music.
Michael music offers equal parts world and new age, an array of middle Eastern rhythms and scales, with tinges of folk and an infusion of Celtic overtones. He is a guitarist of eclectic sensibilities and delicate technique -- lyrical, jazzy, seductively smooth & consistently beautiful.
