Welcome!

My name is Jenny, and I'm glad you're here.

I'm guessing that you found me for one of two reasons:

  • 1 ~ You enjoy the music of my band, Circa Paleo and want to know more about it.
  • 2 ~ You have a Hot Violinist within and are seeking some tips on how to do all of this yourself.

I'm mostly focusing on the instructional stuff here, but this is also a great place to hang out if you want more behind the scenes info and unreleased previews of my music projects.

If you're just here to listen and watch, that's cool, but now a few words for you fiddlers and fiddlers to be:

I'm not claiming to be an expert of the violin, but I do know a LOT about starting violin "late" since I myself began my fiddle journey at age 18. I've also learned a lot about unique world music styles over the past several years of traveling all over the place.

Now I want to share all the quirky tips and music that I've learned. In other words…

I'm here to make YOU into a Hot Violinist.

Before we go further, lets define hot, shall we? Because the hot I’m talking about reaches far beyond smokin’ fiddle riffs and gym bodies. Check out my first blog post, "The Hot Violinist Manifesto," to read about what "hot" really means to me.

Circa Paleo Update April 2017

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This is a letter to all the CP fans with some bits of news about my adventuring bandmates. 

Dearest Amigos,

We hope the first few months of 2017 have been treating you right and that wherever you are in the world the sun is shining. Either that or you are wrapped in a nice warm sweater with a cup of tea in hand.

Circa Paleo does not have any shows booked on the road together this year, but our members are out and about up to all kinds of exciting things.

We are all still intimately connected and in touch.

For example, just the other night James and Joshua created a group text thread and sent Kelly and me close-up photos of these huge piles of nachos they were enjoying at our band’s ol’ fave margarita spot in Texas.

I’ll start with James, since he has the most impressive news update by far. He rescued this pelican from the Great Salt Lake:

He has also joined up a wonderful band called Duende! You can catch them for the final weekend of Sherwood Forest Faire, THIS weekend, April 22, 23.

After that they’ll be headed West to Southern Cali Ren faire. This band features Amanda Kitchens and….. your very own…

Jake Cooper!

I’m afraid I have to share a bit of news about Jake that may be disappointing to some…

Yes, he is officially taken. He and Kendra tied the knot. Here’s a pic of the adorable couple on their wedding day December 23:

Joshua will be out at Sherwood this weekend as well! He is performing with Saxon Moon. They have been up to some cool gigs such as the Dallas Museum of Art.

Throughout the Spring festival season Joshua has often been found performing as a small seal:

Before that, Joshua was out for a Winter tour with David Arkenstone – I heard several of you guys made it out to share the moment!

As you guys know… the CP group and fans are a family, and it always makes me happy when I see pics of any of you together.

Speaking of band family, our beloved Mandi is doing great. She’s been busy being a baddass as usual:

Mandi is of course missing Jay the very most out of all of us, but at least she still has a somewhat Scottish looking dude nearby to swing nunchucks at:

Kelly has been writing a bunch of new original songs, and is this close to mastering her middle splits:

Easter Sunday, she and I hopped on FaceBook Live to play an impromptu holiday jig. We were so surprised how many of you were there to send hearts and thumbs-up floating across the screen!

We had fun and will definitely do this again since you made it feel like a crowd dancing out there:

Feel free to leave a comment to say hi from your part of the world, and I'll pass it along to all the traveling CPeeps.

xoxo,

Jenny and CP