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Jeni & Billy

Coal miners, beauty queens and itinerant preachers. Chicken ridge, church quilting bees, and Mawmaw's kitchen table. These are the familiar, curious, and unforgettable characters and places you will visit as you travel with Jeni & Billy through an evening of song and story. With blue-ribbon picking and lonesome harmonies, this sweetheart duo from East Nashville Tennessee, will take you into their world, and you'll leave one of the family. Sincere hope-infused original mountain folk music.

Jeni & Billy tour internationally playing major festivals at home and abroad from the famous Merlefest in North Carolina to the signature Americana festival in the UK, the Maverick Festival. With awards in songwriting, flat-picking, folk singing, and flatfoot dancing, they combine instrumental virtuosity with down-home charm.

Tom Druckenmiller of Sing Out Magazine calls their work "Some of the best southern music I have heard in a long time." And novelist Lee Smith says, "Jeni and Billy's stunningly original music is as old as those hills, yet brand new at the same time.The spare, simple arrangements not only showcase their musical talents but also highlight the brilliant writing; for Jeni is a true poet and a born storyteller, through and through---many of these songs contain whole novels."