Minneapolis-based musician, educator, percussionist, recording artist, and visual artist Jenny Klukken stops by to talk about her portfolio career and the challenges of playing marimba in small rooms (04:50), her recording and compositional process, her new album Marimba Standard, and the importance of entrepreneurship in the arts (24:30), growing up in rural Minnesota, her enjoyment of jazz and early country music, Spotify Wrapped, and focusing on listening to albums (43:25), attending the University of Minnesota for undergrad, working through 4-mallet grips, her experiences attending the Zeltsman Marimba Festival, her puppetry career as “Jenny and the Pets”, and combining musical artistry with her visual artistry (01:05:45), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including her experiences as a woman in the arts, cooking stories, movies that inspire and/or infuriate, pet names and their backstories, living on a dairy farm, and Pat Metheny (01:35:25).
Finishing with a remembrance on the passing of an important living being (02:00:00).
Jenny Klukken Links:
Jenny Klukken’s new album Marimba Standard
Previous Podcast Guests Mentioned:
Other Links:
“Shadows of the Night” - Pat Benatar
“Don’t Fence Me In” - Gene Autry
“Crowded Table” - The Highwomen
Nickel Creek’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert