Post by jenstarsinic on Dec 11, 2014 21:26:24 GMT
JEN STARSINIC
booking: jen.starsinic@gmail.com
website: www.jenstarsinic.com
*2014 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriting Showcase Finalist
*2011 BMI John Lennon winner
Emerging fiddler and singer/songwriter Jen Starsinic’s musical journey has, thus far, been quite impressive. After busking on street corners, studying old time at its source in Clifftop, WV, attending the Berklee College of Music, and hitting the road with top touring Americana bands such as The David Mayfield Parade, Darol Anger and The Republic of Strings, and Nora Jane Struthers, Starsinic is ready to stand on her own two feet. Starsinic just released The Flood and The Fire, her debut record.
While you are most likely to see Jen Starsinic toting a fiddle or open back banjo, hallmarks of her old time roots, The Flood and The Fire is certainly not an old time record. While there are vestiges of vintage Appalachia throughout the recording, there are hints of country heartache, droning Irish folk, cello, and haunting pedal steel. Her beautiful voice, powerful guitar, virtuosic fiddle skills and stunning talent as a songwriter combine into a beautiful mixture of modern songwriting and American roots music. Each tune represents an aching, a longing, and the snapshot the record offers into the musical soul of Jen Starsinic is startling; this young woman is most certainly a rising voice in contemporary Americana.
booking: jen.starsinic@gmail.com
website: www.jenstarsinic.com
*2014 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriting Showcase Finalist
*2011 BMI John Lennon winner
“This stunning album is a Cash & Carter-like country duet of timeless nostalgia-inducing Americana and modern folk-pop that positions Jen Starsinic as the next great voice in folk music.” – Atlas and the Anchor
"Starsinic has nailed her statement to the mast as a songwriter... It is the resonance and sincerity of Jen Starsinic’s work that lingers." - Americana UK
“An intelligent and insightful songwriter of note.” – Mark Simos
Emerging fiddler and singer/songwriter Jen Starsinic’s musical journey has, thus far, been quite impressive. After busking on street corners, studying old time at its source in Clifftop, WV, attending the Berklee College of Music, and hitting the road with top touring Americana bands such as The David Mayfield Parade, Darol Anger and The Republic of Strings, and Nora Jane Struthers, Starsinic is ready to stand on her own two feet. Starsinic just released The Flood and The Fire, her debut record.
While you are most likely to see Jen Starsinic toting a fiddle or open back banjo, hallmarks of her old time roots, The Flood and The Fire is certainly not an old time record. While there are vestiges of vintage Appalachia throughout the recording, there are hints of country heartache, droning Irish folk, cello, and haunting pedal steel. Her beautiful voice, powerful guitar, virtuosic fiddle skills and stunning talent as a songwriter combine into a beautiful mixture of modern songwriting and American roots music. Each tune represents an aching, a longing, and the snapshot the record offers into the musical soul of Jen Starsinic is startling; this young woman is most certainly a rising voice in contemporary Americana.
(Dave Stallard, Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine)