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ARTIST BIO
Jennifer Bloomer has been performing her own heartfelt songs
for over 20 years. Her music is a blending of pop, jazz, contemporary folk and
classical with soulful melodies and themes.
Growing up in the Bay Area in a family of classical composers and jazz musicians, Jennifer was heavily influenced by both genres of music.
She began writing music at the age of seven, and began performing her pieces at various venues by age ten. Her early tunes were
thoughtful and reflective, with a classical sound. At age 16 Jennifer wrote her
classical solo piano piece, "Andante De Amor", which she features on her
debut album, "Ebb & Flow", and which she performed live the year she wrote it at a composer's concert
at Stanford University.
While in high school, Jennifer was also very involved in singing for
a jazz band, as well as singing and acting in theatrical musical
productions. For the next ten years after high school her songs began
to take on a more jazz/pop feel, which she refers to as her "jazz years",
although a classical-sounding piece would come through now and then, such
as "Green Forest", written at age 20. By age 21 Jennifer began recording
some of her tunes, gaining her initial experience in the recording studio.
After college, in 1987, Jennifer moved back to the Bay Area where she joined the Northern California Songwriters
Association and began performing regularly at open mics throughout the south Bay Area. She won
first place in an open mic competition in 1991 for "Best Performer" while playing her feisty Latin jazz piece, "This Man From Chile". She
also began playing her tunes at festivals, bookstores, and coffee houses.
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In 1992 Jennifer completed her first substantial recording project: a
six song recording of her then recent jazz/pop tunes, entitled "Sitting
Pretty". She continued performing at open mics, weddings, and coffee
houses; then in 1995 produced her second recording on cassette entitled "The Power".
By this time, with two small children under the age of five, Jennifer
decided to give performing a rest and just focus on being a full time
mom. Out of this time of "rest" began her spiritual awakening, which
led ultimately to the creation of a whole new wealth of songs, all
of a spiritual nature. These new songs contain some of the jazz
undertones and contemporary folk as well some a more classical feeling,
reflecting
Jennifer's earliest influences. She began performing her new spiritual
tunes regularly at New Thought churches as well as other spiritual
gatherings throughout Santa Cruz County where she was then living.
In 1999 Jennifer began working with producer/mentor Paul Wagner on
her debut album, "Ebb & Flow". The needs of this project
led her to return to school to study music theory and composition
for one year to gain the appropriate skills to arrange her solo piano
pieces for other musicians on her album, including oboe, cello, trumpet,
and tin Celtic low whistle, performed by David Brewer. While working
on the album she performed in several
full-length house concerts, as well as many churches. She also moved from
the Santa Cruz area to the Nevada City/Grass Valley area in Northern
California where she now lives with her husband and two daughters.
Jennifer is now completing her second album, entitled "Who I
Am", as well she is writing a musical theatrical production inspired
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