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Jessica Smucker & The Sleeping World
Sultry, bluesy folk-rock / dark, lyrical pop. Jessica Smucker's songs are "Woven with a sort of defiant sadness, a square-jawed resilience" (Fly Magazine), delivering lyrics that will trip your mind and tie your stomach in knots.
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MennoJazz, yeah that's it. It's the best way I can describe what I do, the way I play. I wasn't raised Mennonite, but I'm glad I'm part of the culture. So while I am also a church musician and help lead on Sunday morning. That jazz flavor can't help but creep in there.
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Potluck
This is the page for all the stuff that didn't fit anywhere else!
Mennonite Music-Making Bibliography
Jonathan Dueck has compiled an extensive bibliography of articles and other sources that have been written on the topic of Mennonites making music.
He's also written two papers that deal with issues of Mennonites and music:
Who is the Voice Coming From? Mennonites, First Nations People and Appropriation of Voice
Worship Wars, World Music, and Menno-Nots: Recent Studies in Mennonite Music
Other Papers
4 papers from the book "Sound in the Land". Reprinted by permission of Pandora Press.
Klassen, Judith. "Rebel With a Cause: Innovation and Grace in the Music of a Reinfeld Boy."
Dueck, Jonathan. "Encountering (Mennonite) Singer-Songwriters: J.D. Martin and Cate Friesen."