Some songs she did soft and soulful; on others her voice emphasized a raw, ragged and howlin' urban-blues folk-rock pathos. The tunes are tremendous. She's a music phenomenon who's star is rising -very much one of a kind." Aeliot Boswell-Havington The Aeliot Show KPAS Channel 56
"Jennifer makes music with so much abandon and passion and still with such delicacy and finesse that her performance both mesmerizes and invigorates."
"The first time I met Jennifer was onstage. On her latest CD cut 5, which is [her cover of Billie Holiday's] "Strange Fruit", jumped out at me. As I plugged in I knew I was in for a deep experience. Ive checked out her website and earlier music since: if she ever runs for office, she's got my vote."
Jenny & the Whalers at South Padre
Music Draws Siblings Together for the Holidays
When Jennifer Leonhardt repeatedly received alarming weather reports from her sister during Florida's punishing hurricane season of 2004, the singer-songwriter sat down to put some of her sister's feelings and words to music. She sang "Hurricane Alley" in a little bar in New Orleans just 10 days before Katrina hit the following summer.
The storm and its immediate aftermath reminded Leonhardt of Sept 11th. "The effects [of both events] were so widespread," she said in a phone interview. "There was such a feeling of helplessness but it unified because we were all in it."
Naturally, Leonhardt put those feelings down in song, which became her third album Gods & Nations. She's in Venice this month, touring in support of the record...