the Tennessee Snowpants
Jennifer Markey grew up on Broadway musicals and The Carpenters, the daughter of musical parents. She got her first guitar, a hand-me-down from a fellow church-goer's attic, at the age of thirteen, when she promptly acquired a few chords in order to learn Beatles songs. Finding it too difficult and having better things to do with her time, as many teenagers do, she put it away until the age of thirty-one, when a bitter divorce and the desire to have more in life than Sunday football and the daily toils of a preschool classroom drove her to learn songs by Patsy Cline and Hank Williams. She quickly made a splash in the Minneapolis country music scene, singing with local honky-tonk heroes Trailer Trash and Sherwin Linton. Guitar god Dan Gaarder opened Jennifer's mind to songwriting and, before she knew it, she had also become a prolific songwriter, penning titles about Old Crow whiskey and jumping trains to escape abusive parents. When she presented the songs to her band, they jumped on board.
Performance schedule
- February 25, 2010 - 10:00pm
