INTERVIEW: Jenny Scheinman, Rising to New Challenges

Thursday May 05, 2011

From The Albany Times Union

Fiddler Jenny Scheinman returns to Egg, rising to new challenges
By: Michael Eck

Fiddler Jenny Scheinman didn’t grow up like you and I.

Her family was decidedly funky, a cadre of West Coast bohemians who took that idea as far as they could, literally. Scheinman’s youth, in fact, was spent in the westernmost house in the continental United States, at the ocean end of a small river valley in Petrolia, Calif.

Early in her childhood, the house lacked electricity and the modern conveniences associated with it, and she and her siblings played music with their folksinger parents to entertain themselves.

If nothing else, it gave Scheinman — who later studied at Oberlin Conservatory — a solid footing in folk forms and community music-making.

Saturday, she returns to The Egg with legendary Canadian activist and songwriter Bruce Cockburn. She’ll open the show solo and play in Cockburn’s trio (which also features percussionist Gary Craig).

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Newspaper Angels	3:16	Jenny Scheinman
I Was Young When I Left Home	5:31	Jenny Scheinman

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