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Jen Sygit

People's Choice- Best Solo Performer- City Pulse

About Me

A gifted vocalist and masterful songwriter, 2007 Detroit Music Award Nominee Jen Sygit has a golden ear and a deft touch on guitar. Her smooth, sultry voice brings just the right timbre to traditional ballads, acoustic blues, torch songs, country music or lighthearted folk tunes. To supplement her solid acoustic guitar playing, Jen often turns to her open back banjo or soprano ukulele performing mountain melodies and timeless jazz tunes further emphasizing her vocal dexterity. A countrified girl with a generous heart, Jen’s songwriting is personal and heartfelt, but always expressed with a universal appeal. Whether writing about the country roads of her childhood or about watching families send their sons and daughters off to war, Jen Sygit represents “the music of front porch America.”
Now, armed with her sophomore release Leaving Marshall St. (released on Earthwork Music in Sept. 2006) and four years of experience on the road, Jen has worked rooms both large and small. Available as a solo act or with her backing band “Spare Change”, Jen comfortably performs at house concerts, coffeehouses, theaters, festivals and concert series around her home state of Michigan and across the Midwest/ East Coast region. As host of the Tuesday Night Open Mic, a popular underground open mic held weekly at Dagwood Tavern in Lansing, MI, Jen has helped foster the rapidly growing community of musicians and songwriters located in and around mid-Michigan.



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Member Since: 5/23/2006
Band Website: jensygit.com
Band Members: Jen often plays solo, but for select shows she appears with her backing band 'Spare Change'. Spare Change is: Katie Grace on upright bass; Drew "Captain Midnite" Howard on Tele AND all those other instruments; Tahmineh Gueramy on fiddle. Jen is also one half of the duo 'Calamity Jane' with Laura Bates of Bates and Foote; on guitar and flute.

"Conductor Man" Live at the Scene Metrospace Folk Festival Jan. 2008

'Pay for what you get' @ the American Heritage Festival Sept. 2007 (filmed by Andy Balaskovitz)

Tomorrow Night @ the Creole Gallery Jan. 2007
(filmed by Bonnie Bucqueroux)
Influences: Greg Brown, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch, Bonnie Raitt, Patty Griffin, Hayes Carll, Paul Simon, Ella Fitzgerald, Tom Waits, Julie London, Todd Snider, Lucinda Williams, Jolie Holland, Neil Young, Ryan Adams.... and my new hero (thanks to Captain Midnite) is Gene Sheldon!!! See video below...

Sounds Like: Gillian Welch, Patty Griffin, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Jolie Holland...
Record Label: Earthwork Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Great Article on Earthwork Music!

Here's the link:Socially Engaged Eco-Musicians Hit All The Right Notes in Lansing
Posted by Jen Sygit on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:11:00 PST

WOT90s ranks Leaving Marshall St in top 10 albums of year!

WOT90s- based out of Halifax Canada- ranked Leaving Marshall St. in it's top 10 albums of 2007!  Check out the top ten below.  WOT90s also picked "Pay for what you get" as one of the top 100...
Posted by Jen Sygit on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:35:00 PST

Jen Sygit appears on Best of Folk It! 2007

Jen was chosen as "Female Vocal of the Year" for her live performance of "Sugar High" on the Folk It! Radio Show in November '07.  To see other award winners---> Best of Folk ...
Posted by Jen Sygit on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:33:00 PST

New Review from Freight Train Boogie

..> JEN SYGIT Leaving Marshall Street... (Earthworks)    Review by Don Grant Even for a bluegrass/folk album that emphasizes the blues, this one seems a bit on the melancholic side...
Posted by Jen Sygit on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:54:00 PST

Leaving Marshall St. reviewed in Sing Out! Magazine

Here's the review of Leaving Marshall St. from Vol. 51 No. 2 of Sing Out! Folk Music Magazine: A Number of elements come together with seeming ease on Leaving Marshall St., making it an enjoyable, roo...
Posted by Jen Sygit on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:05:00 PST

Detroit Music Award Nomination!!!

This just in!!! Leaving Marshall St. has been nominated for a Detroit Music Award for  OUTSTANDING ACOUSTIC/FOLK RECORDING!! To view other nominees and for information on attending the awards sho...
Posted by Jen Sygit on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:42:00 PST

Torch and Twang- Best of 2006!!

Here it is... the complete list of Progressive Torch and Twang's "Top 45 of 2006". These were voted on by listeners who submitted a personal "Best of" list, along with our tally of what received the ...
Posted by Jen Sygit on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:45:00 PST

Still Climbing the Charts!

An exciting update! As reported in an earlier blog entry, the new album charted on the Roots Music Report's- 'Folk' chart.  Well, it's now been on the chart for 14 weeks and has climbed from #31 ...
Posted by Jen Sygit on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:30:00 PST

Jen lands at No. 5 on John Bommarito's Best of 2006!!

John Bommarito is a disc jockey for both WQKL (www.annarbors107one.com - 107.1 on the FM dial) and WHFR (www.whfr.fm - 89.3 on the FM dial).Here's the list and info about how the albums were scored:Ev...
Posted by Jen Sygit on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:47:00 PST

The Best You've Never Heard - Article in The Big Green

Hello All!Here's a link to an article written about yours truly for the February issue of The Big Green online Magazine.Enjoy!!!TBG- The Best You've Never Heard: Jen Sygit...
Posted by Jen Sygit on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:36:00 PST