Kayla Hotte & Jenny Lester (Alberta & BC) Growing up on Bluegrass can lead you to the Honky Tonks... Both Kayla Hotte (Alberta) and Jenny Lester (BC) grew up in musical families influenced by the community of Bluegrass music. In one inspired late night jam at an NBC workshop in 2016 they discovered a common passion for a repertoire of songs from country legends including Kitty Wells, Buck Owens and George Jones. Hear the voices of these two beloved Canadian, multi-instrumentalist, singers come together to put a tear in your smile and make you want to hold someone you love.
Jenny Lester

Roots music performer, songwriter and teacher from

Smithers, British Columbia, Canada.

Big Whoop! Songs of Love, Loss & Laughter (Vancouver Based) Don’t miss the intimate evening of old-time, country, bluegrass and other song traditions as well as original material. Big Whoop! Features the heartfelt vocal harmonies of Karla Mundy and Jenny Lester, who recently have joined forces to perform after years of teaching harmony singing together. Tim Tweedale (dobro) and Patrick Metzger (bass) provide instrumental accompaniment and sweet third harmony parts.
Contact to book a Workshop or Performance rootsmusiclessons @ gmail.com 250 - 877 - 0674
Jenny Lester is a dynamic Canadian Bluegrass performer and recording artist who has established herself as an important singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her original songs are carefully crafted in the bluegrass convention while at the same time displaying a contemporary freshness and vitality that breathes new life into the fabled "high lonesome" sound.  Jenny is a veteran stage performer, beginning on the fiddle at age eight with her family's Driftwood Canyon Family Band out of Smithers, B.C. After nearly a decade of touring West Coast festivals, Jenny won a musical scholarship to South Plains College in Texas, graduating with honors and three Golden Reel awards. The journey moved in the 1990s through Dark Horse based in Colorado, the Australian trio performing at Leo Foo Village in Taiwan, John Reischman and Bluegrass Signal in Vancouver, BC, and the Jenny Lester Trio. In 1998 Jenny released the internationally acclaimed debut album Friends Like You. The turn of the millennium brought together world touring, Yukon-based band, Hungry Hill.  Her love of music has been paralleled by her love of horses and Jenny currently devotes her life to both while living on Denman Island, BC.
2018 Camps & Performances

Foothills Acoustic Music

May Instructional Camp

May 18-21, 2018

Calgary, Alberta

SongRoots Summer Camp

July 9 -13, 2018


Gambier Island, BC

NimbleFingers

Week 1 Aug 19  - Aug 24
The Festival is Saturday
Aug 25

Week 2 Aug 26 - Aug 31


Sorrento, BC

Beyond Trad

July 23-27, 2018


Parksville, BC

Vancouver Island Music Workshop

Sept 7-9, 2018


Parksville, BC

Purchase

CD’S & Lesson DVDs HERE!

  Mountain Girl

       River Mother Nature & Me

  Friends Like You

    Crooked Log Cabin

       Nahlin River Song

     Send Down an Angel

     Atlin

     Shining Moments

     One Way Track

     Loving You Loving Me

     Ride

     Going Home

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Original Songs

ArtWells

Aug 3-6, 2018


Wells, BC

Jenny Lester
original songs

Old Church 7-9pm

Sunday, May 27

by Donation


Smithers, BC

2018 Harmony Singing Workshops


May 27 : 5-6pm Smithers, BC  Old Church

  1. -first come entry, max 80


May 28 : 7-9pm Quesnel, BC

contact : rootsmusiclessons@gmail.com


May 30 : 10:30am - 1pm Courtenay BC

  1. -max 20 reserve Sound Waves Lesson Studio

  2. -soundwaves675@gmail.com