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Jenn and Basho

"A Midwestern grit with a heart made of the highest karat gold, Jenn Rawling's endearing personality shines beacon-bright in her music as well as her daily life. Basho Park's twenty-six years of string-playing experience span a huge swath of musical genres."

Jennifer Marie Rawling is a tree-climbing, fire-watching, pottery-making songstress born in Wisconsin and residing in Oregon. She is a roving apothecary, gardener, seamstress, chef, bicyclist and painter extraordinaire living with partner and bandmate Basho Parks in Portland. Midwestern grit with a heart made of the highest karat gold, Jenn's endearing personality shines beacon-bright in her music as well as her daily life.

Born to hippie idealists in an adobe hut seven miles shy of Colorado's Mt. Blanca, Basho Watson Parks comes to us from radical origins. From symphonies to punk bands, bluegrass barn storms to roma-gypsy trios, organic electronica chamber music to classic country, his twenty-six years of string-playing experience span a huge swath of musical genres. A session musician in the Portland area for the past five years, B.W. recorded with On the Stairs, Fast Rattler, Sara Jackson Holman, and Jenn Rawling in 2011. Basho plays the violin, viola, mandolin, ukulele, and guitar, providing backing vocals on most songs as well.