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Biography
refimprove|date=January 2011Infobox musical artist | name = The Wailin' Jennys| image = The Wailin Jennys.jpg| caption = The Wailin' Jennys performing at George Wein's Newport Folk Festival in 2011.| image_size = 170| background = group_or_band| origin = Winnipeg|Winnipeg, Manitoba , Canada | genre = Traditional music|Folk , Bluegrass music|bluegrass | years_active = 2002& ndash;present| label = Jericho Beach Music|Jericho Beach | associated_acts =| website = URL| http://www.thewailinjennys.com/| current_members = Ruth Moody Nicky Mehta Heather Masse | past_members = Cara Luft Annabelle Chvostek '''The Wailin' Jennys' are a Canadian music group. They have released several albums and received a Juno Award . The group has been featured on the American Public Media program, A Prairie Home Companion and their album, Firecracker (The Wailin' Jennys)|Firecracker peaked at number two on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard Bluegrass music|Bluegrass charts, in 2006.
History
The group was founded in 2002, when a Winnipeg guitar shop called Sled Dog Music, brought Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta and Cara Luft together for a joint performance. The show was well received and the owner scheduled a follow-up performance cite web|url= http://www.sleddogmusic.com/ |title=Sled Dog Music |publisher=Sled Dog Music |date= |accessdate=2011-07-27 and suggested they "go on tour and call themselves the Wailin' Jennys." http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2005/05/21/guests.shtml Notes the 2005-05-21 episode of A Prairie Home Companion , viewed 2006-10-10 The group's name is a pun on the country singer Waylon Jennings .fact|date=December 2011 The group consists of soprano Ruth Moody , mezzo Nicky Mehta and alto Heather Masse . In previous years, the Jennys have also toured with fiddler and mandolinist Jeremy Penner , who is from Ruth's former band, Scruj MacDuhk . Other band members have included, Annabelle Chvostek , a singer/songwriter from Montreal and Ruth Moody's brother Richard on viola and mandolin. Both Penner and Moody have appeared on The Wailin' Jennys' albums. At the Juno Awards of 2005|2005 Juno Awards , the group won Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Group|Roots and Traditional Album of the Year (Group) for their 2004 album 40 Days . http://www.guilford.edu/about_guilford/news_and_publications/releases/wailin_jennys.html Article at Guilford In 2007, Chvostek left the group and was replaced by Heather Masse , a Maine -born singer and member of the band Heather & the Barbarians .
Discography
Studio albums
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Album details
Peak chart positions
US Grass
US Heat
US Indie
US Folk
40 Days
Release date: August 10, 2004
Label: Red House Records
Firecracker
Release date: June 6, 2006
Label: Red House Records
Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House
Release date: August 11, 2009
Label: Red House Records
Bright Morning Stars
Release date: January 8, 2011
Label: Red House Records
"—" denotes releases that did not chart
Extended plays
Title
Album details
Peak positions
US Grass
'' The Wailin' Jennys EP
Release date: 2003
Label: Red House Records
iTunes Session
Release date: November 1, 2011
Label: iTunes
"—" denotes releases that did not chart
References
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External links
http://www.thewailinjennys.com/ The Wailin' Jennys' official site
http://www.myspace.com/thewailinjennys The Wailin' Jennys' Myspace
http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/article.asp? xid=981 Wailin' Jennys set off a firecracker, story at Country Standard Time, 2006
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