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About Me

I grew up beside waterfallls and nestled in among mossy trees and blackberry brambles. I ran around barefoot and picked wild strawberries. I grew up...mostly. Where upon, I packed my bags and flew to Colorado where I rode horses across high, high mountains and through wildflowers. Then I drove miles and miles untill I got to Montana where I sailed across Flathead Lake and was befriended by many amazing people. Through it all I have learned that music is the point of me. I can't not sing. I can't not write or play. It is how I know who I am and why I am here.
For now, I have decided to reside beside the rivers of Portland. But oh, the wildwoods and those peaks. Someday soon, I will return with new songs to sing among the flowers and the snow.
I am madly in love with the banjo. Oh that bittersweet pluck! ;) I have managed to find a few songs within it's four and a half strings. Slowly but surely I am finding more!
Thank you everyone for listening!
~Be, Love

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/25/2008
Band Members: Jenna Ellefson, the occasional harmony of her beloved sister Kelli Ellefson and Jenna's banjo.
Influences: Love, hope, faith, sadness, understanding, fear, honesty, bravery, the kindness of strangers, flowers, birds, weather, old and wise instruments that know more about life than I do, seasons, the sky, water, bridges, the sound of birdsong in the hour before sunrise, travelling to new places, a good fireplace, calla lillies, those rare days in winter that are sunny but cold, good, good friends, and my mom, dad, sister and brother who are my solid ground and my light.

These days I am quite in awe of Jakob Dylan, The Punch Brothers, Crooked Still, Nickel Creek (always), Emmylou Harris, Po'girl, the Weepies, Tom Petty, Mason Jennings, David Gray, Brandi Carlile, Jewel, Ryan Adams, and Keith Urban.
Sounds Like: A girl with a with a banjo.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Ashes

it was all black and white and white daisies in a vase painted pale pink like an old movie they turned to color my own tears on a love-made quilt in a quiet cozy room safe and sound and alone and cr...
Posted by Jenna Ellefson on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:41:00 PST

Over the Mountain lyrics

Oh my love has gone over the mountain oh my love has gone to the sea gone to sail that wide ocean oh my love will come for me I watched that long snowy winter melt into a blooming spring n...
Posted by Jenna Ellefson on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:56:00 PST

the missing of friends

The clouds formed themselves into the shape of mountains on the horizon and I fell asleep and dreamed I was home never more to be lonely and alone beside this relentless river all their voices raised...
Posted by Jenna Ellefson on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:07:00 PST

across the blue

if I were a bird across the blue to you I would come always so easy it would be so easy white on white against the starry night looking up and out from under the tumbling universe bu...
Posted by Jenna Ellefson on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:35:00 PST

"Now"..a letter to someone that wont read it

now here I am again that music banging in my head and now I can't hear it at all you took from me her beauty your beauty you marred it all and you didn't have to I would have been your friend yo...
Posted by Jenna Ellefson on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:48:00 PST

open

I go walking in this city sometimes past people in their steady homes someone put a pail out on their porch for years it has been there all twined in vines of morning glory set out to measure the rain...
Posted by Jenna Ellefson on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:23:00 PST

Breath

I am searching for something inbetween mountains beside water in your heart or another and I have not found it anywhere There have been pieces and glimmers of that light always burning out so ...
Posted by Jenna Ellefson on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:03:00 PST

7 steps to jenna’s happy place...a blog

Ways for an overly dramatic, overly emotional person to feel neither: 1. burn candles that smell like rhubarb (that you splurged on at urban outfitters when you were supposed to be returning things ON...
Posted by Jenna Ellefson on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:32:00 PST

untitled

I am sorry I hurt you I am worried over your heart I said the wrong thing at the wrong time and there is no fixing it I want this so much but I missed it I watch it as it rolls by brushes my clothes...
Posted by Jenna Ellefson on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:47:00 PST

Light Leaving

I got it lost that paper dream all in among the others you stopped me bent and searching upright in the doorway with a breathless smile and all I remember was my heart pounding do us part and ...
Posted by Jenna Ellefson on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:10:00 PST