Jenny McCormick is a performer who seems able to move between the traditional folk clubs and the new folk and acoustic scene with ease. A singer who wanted to be a writer before she started to concentrate on songs, it was the storytelling aspect that first drew her to traditional material. Receiving Radio 2 airplay, Jenny has played support to the likes of Devon Sproule, John Smith and Spiers & Boden. 2011 brings the release of a brand new album, Sweet Demon, and Jenny’s love of folklore and poetry is more visible than ever in her own songwriting. The self-penned Evie draws the listener into an intimate dream world, blending desire and reality with its references of windswept hills and star-crossed lovers while The Lancashire Fusilier is a bitter message from a new recruit to his ill-caring girlfriend. The album also contains a co-write between Jenny and Sam Genders (of Tunng and The Accidental). For all its imagery of monsters and chariots, Monocle, is a beautifully uplifting and romantic highlight. Other news from the last year is that Jenny has joined the long running Memory Band and recording on their new album. With a cast of fantastic singers and musicians including Sam Carter, John Smith and Nancy Wallace, Oh My Days is released 7th February 2011. Already receiving 4 star reviews Mojo, hails it as “proffer[ing} folk music as a thing of both cockle-warming familiarity and subtle innovation.” PREVIOUS PRESS “A true artist bringing refreshing new perspectives to the folk form.” – Spiral Earth “Her talent for songwriting is pretty formidable and there’s no greater example of this than when she sits the slow country of her Hey Joe and the aching finesse of her Fisherboy between the folk classics House Carpenter and Blackwater Side, and there’s no drop in quality.” – Chris Long, BBC
