Valentines Drop! Harmony and lap steel laden Maine Music ft Leigh Charest and Sugarbear Morgan

Get ready for a song that’s “A little bit about horse racing, a little bit about car racing, and not about racing at all.”

An Opening, written by Jenny Lou in 2021, traveled up and down the salty coast of Maine before landing in recorded form in 2023. The harmony and lap steel laden tune featuring Leigh Charest and Sugarbear Morgan will be available across streaming platforms on Valentines Day. This song is a total mood. If you can’t wait until the 14th to hear it, head on over to Patreon for a listen.

Jenny Lou Drew - U.N.E. & INELDA TRAINED death doula

Though no training is required to offer services as an End-of-Life Doula, Jenny Lou Drew has successfully completed two of the most respected and recognized training programs for EOL Doulas offered worldwide:

The 40-hour End-of-Life Doula training provided by INELDA and the EOL doula program provided by the University of New England.

Jenny also holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Southern Maine and is a certified activities professional. More valuable than any classroom training, Jenny has many years of experience in direct support of Mainers facing terminal illness and their families.

Though unable to offer comprehensive doula services at this time, Jenny is accepting a limited number of specialized contracts for legacy songwriting services. Each service includes a general doula consultation.

February 25th @ CoCo Housing Paint Party Afterparty

February 25th @ CoCo Housing Paint Party Afterparty

Come join us in the cozy living room at CoCo Housing’s Cooperative restoration project in beautiful, Monmouth, Maine. We’ll be hosting some live music and poetry by the fireplace after the community paint party on February 25th at 4:30pm. Paint party starts at 10 and all are welcome to both or either part of the event. Help us spread the word and awareness—rooms are still available!

Stream Jenny Lou Drew Live on The Breakfast Club with Mark and Sara

If you couldn’t catch Jenny’s live performance and interview on WIGY radio this morning, you’ll be able to stream it at the link below for a short time. Listen to some brand-spanking-new tunes and banter about the Beers With(out) Beards Festival at Brick South on Saturday, Sunday brunches at Water’s Edge Restaurant, and the Maine Folk Festival coming up in July.

LISTEN TO JLD ON THE BREAKFAST CLUB — CLICK HERE


Jenny Lou DREW TO PERFORM AT THOMPSON’S POiNT FESTIVAL APRIL 9TH BEERS WITHOUT BEARDS TICKETS ON SALE NOW

The fifth annual Beers With(out) Beards takes pride in representing women and femme-identifying folks in the beer industry. And this year, we feel especially empowered by those who have also had the courage to speak up about the importance of equity and inclusion in craft beer. Together, everyone’s voice is stronger. 

Join us on Saturday, April 9th, 2022, at Brick South in Portland, ME to celebrate the achievements of women in craft beer. At the festival, you’ll be able to enjoy beer from thirty-five-plus breweries that are either women-owned or owned by femme-identifying people, or that have women or femme-identifiying people in prominent leadership positions. Live music featuring Maine artists, Jenny Lou Drew and Courtney Burns.

You can purchase tickets for the 2022 Beers Without Beards Festival by clicking the banner below






How bout a show at your house?

I’ve been dragging my feet on this one for years. Always wanted to try it, but I actually have yet to book a house concert. I’ve been around for quite a while so this is a realization that requires a response in the form of an actionable plan.

Are you in this same boat? Have you heard stories from your friends about the house concert they attended way back in 2007 when house concerts were new, where they got those poetry magnets and that bluegrass record that hangs on the wall because the player is broke and everyone had such a wild and wonderful and laid back time?

Don’t live vicariously through Jack and Wendy! Book YOUR VERY OWN HOUSE CONCERT today!

Jenny Lou Drew with Gunther Brown at OLS 2.15.20

Gunther Brown is a six piece Americana roots rock band from Portland, Maine. Gunther Brown introduced themselves to the world with Good Nights for Daydreams. Released in 2014, Good Nights for Daydreams was Gunther Brown’s full length debut and received only great reviews, both in the band’s hometown and internationally.

The Portland Phoenix said, “The guys in Gunther Brown can lay on the biting spite pretty thick, but they also embrace pure emotion. With Gunther Brown’s debut full-length, frontman Pete Dubuc and crew have created the most sorrowful local record since Ray Lamontagne’s Till the Sun Turns Black.” AmericanaUK added, “Gunther Brown’s debut album is forty minutes of resignation and despair set to one of the most mournful soundtracks you’re likely to hear this year or any other. Leader and songwriter Pete Dubuc is a master of despondency.”

In 2016, Gunther Brown released, North Wind, a new 10 song album, on vinyl, CD and digital formats. The album was released in Europe on CRS. Reviews of North Wind heaped praise on the band with statements like, “one of your great Americana promises for 2016.” and “‘North Wind’ is many things at once: tender, fierce, thought-provoking, powerful and even fun. Could lavish praise on every track … this band is really onto something.” After a European tour in 2017 the band took an extended break and the lineup underwent some changes before releasing New Man as a single in December 2018. Gunther Brown’s third full length album will be released on February 15, 2020 at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine, with special guest, Jenny Lou Drew.

Since the release of Rockbiter, Jenny Lou Drew’s sophomore solo record, the Maine artist has been collecting accolades from near and far, including a recent win at the Maine Songwriters Association annual songwriting competition for the song "Mending Fences” and a nom for Best in State alongside The Ghost of Paul Revere in the 2019 New England Music Awards.

On August 5th, just prior to the release of Rockbiter, Portland Press Herald Music Writer Aimsel Ponti announced, “I’m going to make a bold statement and declare (Rockbiter) the local album of the year.”

Portland talent buyer and promoter Lauren Wayne responded to the record with, “I haven’t heard someone come out of Maine with this kind of voice since Ray LaMontagne.”

The album, which is available digitally across platforms and tangibly on Bandcamp and select Bull Moose Music locations, “plays around with several constructs, including Freewheelin’ finger-picked folk, swaying, Orbisonian balladry and pedal-steel-swathed alt-country. But these are details you might not notice until the fourth or fifth listen, when it dawns on you that your speakers are now haunted forever by the benevolent spirit of Drew’s voice.” —Joe Sweeney, Mainer News, September 2019.

Since her solo debut, Drew’s music has been on regular rotation on WCLZ and Rockbiter has been hitting Maine airwaves on WCLZ, FrankFM, and Maine Public Radio. Rockbiter was released on August 10th with a show at Portland House of Music and Events and had nearly sold out of the first run of hard copies in less than a month’s time.

The reclusive singer-songwriter is self-taught, sans a handful of classical guitar lessons by the late-great, Michael Silvestri. She credits her whisper-like timbre to years spent whispering into a tape recorder in order to retain her crafted melodies. Her father, a race car driver turned mill worker, worked the graveyard shift at S.D. Warren paper mill while building a post-and-beam home for the family, and the 1970s trailer she spent her early years in was on hush-mode during daylight hours.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TICKETS TO THE SHOW

Aimsel Ponti of the Portland Press Herald Calls Rockbiter Local Album of the Year