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“Power-house acoustic trio Moonshine Jelly consists of violinist and vocalist Lee White, mandolinist, vocalist and songwriter Justine Lucas, and guitarist and filmmaker Kent Kessinger. This bluegrass-celtic-gypsy-swing folk band adds contemporary context to ancient folk songs of Eastern Europe, the British Isles, and the Americas. With their intimate voices, unpredictable harmonies, and performance intensity, this up-and-coming band is not only reviving but transforming traditional musics of the world.”
Justine Lucas:
Singer-songwriter, artist, and multi-instrumentalist Justine Lucas captures audiences with her musical storytelling and her intimate approach to performance. Her music has been described as “softly haunting” by the SF Deli Magazine, and “world traveling…a sound that tells a story, fluttering from intimate to intense” by teh SF Bay Guarian. Though based out of San Francisco, Justine currently lives on the road, traveling internationally with friends in various circus productions, meeting and playing with new musicians wherever the circus takes her.
Lee White:
Lee White has been playing violin since the age of 6. Her father, a music teaher in San Francisco (Lee’s hometown), and her mother, a music teacher in the Oakland Public Scool District, taught her Celtic and American tunes by ear, fostering her love of folk music. At the age of 11, she began formal training. In addition to her instrumental studies, Lee san first soprano in the San Francisco Girls’ Chorus for ives years. She started performing solo at Brava Theater at the age of 14, but soon got heavily into Celtic Roots music. At age 18, Lee toured Southern Ireland with her first band, Drowsy Maggie, along with one of her former violin teachers, Alison Streich. Sine then, she has also performed at military functions such as house-concerts at Airforce bases in Travis, CA and in Kuwait. Although she primarily plays Celtic fiddle music, Lee has taken her yeas of experience in Blues and folk improvisation and branched out into explorations of Jazz, Swing, Ragtime, and Latin genres. Currently she plays fiddle in an Irish band called The Gallowglasses, as well as with singer-songwriter Lowell James-Hicks. She currently teaches violin in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kent Kessinger:
Kent Kessinger is from around Durham, North Carolina. He used to be a cook, and he got to cook a mid rare filet mignon for Doc Watson at one point. Kent is also a filmmaker, and he became interested in migration issues and made some films around the subject. He is heavily influened by the music of Doc Watson, Phillip Glass, Jose Gonzalez and Reverend Gary Davis.
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“Power-house acoustic trio Moonshine Jelly consists of violinist and vocalist Lee White, mandolinist, vocalist and songwriter Justine Lucas, and guitarist and filmmaker Kent Kessinger. This bluegrass-celtic-gypsy-swing folk band adds contemporary context to ancient folk songs of Eastern Europe, the British Isles, and the Americas. With their intimate voices, unpredictable harmonies, and performance intensity, this up-and-coming band is not only reviving but transforming traditional musics of the world.”
Justine Lucas:
Singer-songwriter, artist, and multi-instrumentalist Justine Lucas captures audiences with her musical storytelling and her intimate approach to performance. Her music has been described as “softly haunting” by the SF Deli Magazine, and “world traveling…a sound that tells a story, fluttering from intimate to intense” by teh SF Bay Guarian. Though based out of San Francisco, Justine currently lives on the road, traveling internationally with friends in various circus productions, meeting and playing with new musicians wherever the circus takes her.
Lee White:
Lee White has been playing violin since the age of 6. Her father, a music teaher in San Francisco (Lee’s hometown), and her mother, a music teacher in the Oakland Public Scool District, taught her Celtic and American tunes by ear, fostering her love of folk music. At the age of 11, she began formal training. In addition to her instrumental studies, Lee san first soprano in the San Francisco Girls’ Chorus for ives years. She started performing solo at Brava Theater at the age of 14, but soon got heavily into Celtic Roots music. At age 18, Lee toured Southern Ireland with her first band, Drowsy Maggie, along with one of her former violin teachers, Alison Streich. Sine then, she has also performed at military functions such as house-concerts at Airforce bases in Travis, CA and in Kuwait. Although she primarily plays Celtic fiddle music, Lee has taken her yeas of experience in Blues and folk improvisation and branched out into explorations of Jazz, Swing, Ragtime, and Latin genres. Currently she plays fiddle in an Irish band called The Gallowglasses, as well as with singer-songwriter Lowell James-Hicks. She currently teaches violin in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kent Kessinger:
Kent Kessinger is from around Durham, North Carolina. He used to be a cook, and he got to cook a mid rare filet mignon for Doc Watson at one point. Kent is also a filmmaker, and he became interested in migration issues and made some films around the subject. He is heavily influened by the music of Doc Watson, Phillip Glass, Jose Gonzalez and Reverend Gary Davis.
$5 Adv/Stu/Snr, $7 Door
“Power-house acoustic trio Moonshine Jelly consists of violinist and vocalist Lee White, mandolinist, vocalist and songwriter Justine Lucas, and guitarist and filmmaker Kent Kessinger. This bluegrass-celtic-gypsy-swing folk band adds contemporary context to ancient folk songs of Eastern Europe, the British Isles, and the Americas. With their intimate voices, unpredictable harmonies, and performance intensity, this up-and-coming band is not only reviving but transforming traditional musics of the world.”
Justine Lucas:
Singer-songwriter, artist, and multi-instrumentalist Justine Lucas captures audiences with her musical storytelling and her intimate approach to performance. Her music has been described as “softly haunting” by the SF Deli Magazine, and “world traveling…a sound that tells a story, fluttering from intimate to intense” by teh SF Bay Guarian. Though based out of San Francisco, Justine currently lives on the road, traveling internationally with friends in various circus productions, meeting and playing with new musicians wherever the circus takes her.
Lee White:
Lee White has been playing violin since the age of 6. Her father, a music teaher in San Francisco (Lee’s hometown), and her mother, a music teacher in the Oakland Public Scool District, taught her Celtic and American tunes by ear, fostering her love of folk music. At the age of 11, she began formal training. In addition to her instrumental studies, Lee san first soprano in the San Francisco Girls’ Chorus for ives years. She started performing solo at Brava Theater at the age of 14, but soon got heavily into Celtic Roots music. At age 18, Lee toured Southern Ireland with her first band, Drowsy Maggie, along with one of her former violin teachers, Alison Streich. Sine then, she has also performed at military functions such as house-concerts at Airforce bases in Travis, CA and in Kuwait. Although she primarily plays Celtic fiddle music, Lee has taken her yeas of experience in Blues and folk improvisation and branched out into explorations of Jazz, Swing, Ragtime, and Latin genres. Currently she plays fiddle in an Irish band called The Gallowglasses, as well as with singer-songwriter Lowell James-Hicks. She currently teaches violin in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kent Kessinger:
Kent Kessinger is from around Durham, North Carolina. He used to be a cook, and he got to cook a mid rare filet mignon for Doc Watson at one point. Kent is also a filmmaker, and he became interested in migration issues and made some films around the subject. He is heavily influened by the music of Doc Watson, Phillip Glass, Jose Gonzalez and Reverend Gary Davis.
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“Power-house acoustic trio Moonshine Jelly consists of violinist and vocalist Lee White, mandolinist, vocalist and songwriter Justine Lucas, and guitarist and filmmaker Kent Kessinger. This bluegrass-celtic-gypsy-swing folk band adds contemporary context to ancient folk songs of Eastern Europe, the British Isles, and the Americas. With their intimate voices, unpredictable harmonies, and performance intensity, this up-and-coming band is not only reviving but transforming traditional musics of the world.”
Justine Lucas:
Singer-songwriter, artist, and multi-instrumentalist Justine Lucas captures audiences with her musical storytelling and her intimate approach to performance. Her music has been described as “softly haunting” by the SF Deli Magazine, and “world traveling…a sound that tells a story, fluttering from intimate to intense” by teh SF Bay Guarian. Though based out of San Francisco, Justine currently lives on the road, traveling internationally with friends in various circus productions, meeting and playing with new musicians wherever the circus takes her.
Lee White:
Lee White has been playing violin since the age of 6. Her father, a music teaher in San Francisco (Lee’s hometown), and her mother, a music teacher in the Oakland Public Scool District, taught her Celtic and American tunes by ear, fostering her love of folk music. At the age of 11, she began formal training. In addition to her instrumental studies, Lee san first soprano in the San Francisco Girls’ Chorus for ives years. She started performing solo at Brava Theater at the age of 14, but soon got heavily into Celtic Roots music. At age 18, Lee toured Southern Ireland with her first band, Drowsy Maggie, along with one of her former violin teachers, Alison Streich. Sine then, she has also performed at military functions such as house-concerts at Airforce bases in Travis, CA and in Kuwait. Although she primarily plays Celtic fiddle music, Lee has taken her yeas of experience in Blues and folk improvisation and branched out into explorations of Jazz, Swing, Ragtime, and Latin genres. Currently she plays fiddle in an Irish band called The Gallowglasses, as well as with singer-songwriter Lowell James-Hicks. She currently teaches violin in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kent Kessinger:
Kent Kessinger is from around Durham, North Carolina. He used to be a cook, and he got to cook a mid rare filet mignon for Doc Watson at one point. Kent is also a filmmaker, and he became interested in migration issues and made some films around the subject. He is heavily influened by the music of Doc Watson, Phillip Glass, Jose Gonzalez and Reverend Gary Davis.
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