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Jenni Mansfield Peal

Dallas Prairie Urban Folk

About Me

Photos taken at Pickin' in the Pines 5/17/08 by Tom Peal.Thanks to all of our friends who joined us for the show in beautiful Pine Mills, Texas: T-Roy Miller's Pickin' in the Pines!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/12/2006
Band Website: jennifermansfieldpeal.com
Band Members:


Reflecting Pool: Paul Marroquin, violin; Bob Williford, guitars, songs; Jim Wagner and Mark Wilson, bass viol; Jenni Mansfield Peal, lead vocalist, guitar, accordion, songs. We just got back from a show and recording at Pickin' in the Pines in Pine Mills, Texas. We loved the two-day festival, which included performances by Walt and Tina Wilkins, Brian Burns, Mark Ambrose, ShaAnnie and T&C Miller. Watch for Reflecting Pool playing around North Texas this summer and new projects in the fall.

Chick Fuqua and Cletis Clay at RRR-Revue, Oct. 31, 2007 Opening Bell Coffee and Stocks, Dallas; Jenni at Moonlady Night (see link below to the Moonlady Pages) at White Rock Lake, Dallas. Photos by Tom Peal.

Click here to buy my CD, Flood

Visit my other websites too - they're all different:
www.jennifermansfieldpeal.com (That's the big one with all of my lyrics and bio stuff.)
www.missjenni.com (That's about Miss Jenni's Pioneer Play Party, my researched children's traditional music and dance show.)

www.ezfolk.com/audio/jenni and www.ezfolk.com/audio/missjenni
(Ezfolk.com is a warm community of traditional and original music lovers. I have lots of my more traditional songs and ballads posted there, including some early Pegasus Project stuff.)

Tom Peal and I produce Free Dallas Music! Songwriter's Open Mic twice a month at Half Price Books and Records, Northwest Highway, in Dallas. You can find out all about it at www.myspace.com/freedallasmusic.
Here's a video summing up 2007, our second year. "Invincible"(c)Josh Cooley The Joshua Project . Photos by Tom Peal.


Influences: My historic moment. Also: Tom Peal; Slim "Smiles" Richey; Jacques Brel, Fred Eaglesmith, Edith Piaf, The Robert Shaw Chorale, southern US short story writers in general; Le Chat Noir and all early cabaret, BKS Iyengar; Appolinaire, Modigliani, Kiki and all early modernists; Dewey, Piaget and Vygotsky; Charlie Alexander; Steve Leach; and anybody who's trying to make the world a better place while honoring human rights and differences.
Sounds Like:


Record Label: Scatterbranch Music Publishing
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Pickin’ in the Pines, May 2008

Thanks to T-roy, Candace, Gerry and Richard Miller and everybody else who put on and supported Pickin' in the Pines, May 16-17, 2008, in Pine Mills, Texas. Great show! I'll always remember the Ponyt...
Posted by Jenni Mansfield Peal on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:39:00 PST

Fun at the Freiheit Store

What a pleasure to see old friends at the Freiheit Store in New Braunfels last weekend!  Al Barlow and his friends put on a great show.  It looks like we might be able to get Al up here to ...
Posted by Jenni Mansfield Peal on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:50:00 PST

Kerrville Folk Festival Photos

We had lots of fun last weekend at the Kerrville Folk Festival.  Enjoy these photos of some of the famous Kerrville camps - you can see Tom's entire album (including camps, sights, and friends) a...
Posted by Jenni Mansfield Peal on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:44:00 PST

Enthusiasm

All right, I'm sensitive. I've allowed myself to remain soft because once, long ago, a song emerged from my softness. Songs have kept coming and I have tried to do chaos honor by remaining accessibl...
Posted by Jenni Mansfield Peal on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:35:00 PST

Reflecting Pool is Jennis New Combo

photo by Tom PealReflecting PoolJenni Mansfield Peal, Bob "Zen Bubba" Williford, Jim WagnerOriginal Urban Folk and SwingJoin us for our premiere performance March 7, 2008 at Opening Bell Coffee and St...
Posted by Jenni Mansfield Peal on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:27:00 PST

everything is different now everythings the same

I just saw the cutest boy.  It was when I completed an upload (here on myspace) of a comment to a myspace friend.  He was looking right at me like there was a camera on his computer (do they...
Posted by Jenni Mansfield Peal on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:12:00 PST

Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

Thought you faithful readers might like this pithy comment on the personal cost of body image marketing to young girls. Thanks, Dona, for sending it.Although I have tweaks and twinges of body guilt (...
Posted by Jenni Mansfield Peal on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:59:00 PST

Trained fly balances ball video

What an act! Happy Year of the Rat (Mouse for Japan)!Trained Japanese fly balances a ball - CrazyAsianVids.com Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by Jenni Mansfield Peal on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:24:00 PST

Affirmation Girl Meets Her New Boss

Hah. I love youtube.comOther excellent videos by Lisa Nova ("Hillary vs. Obama II" is featured on her profile - very funny):http://www.youtube.com/user/LisaNova...
Posted by Jenni Mansfield Peal on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:04:00 PST

Video: Free Dallas Music! Songwriter’s Open Mic 2007

Invincible (c) Josh Cooley;2007 The Joshua ProjectPhotos by Tom PealThese are just some of the performers who graced the FDM!SOM stage in 2007 and only a glimpse of the amazing range of musi...
Posted by Jenni Mansfield Peal on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:45:00 PST