Learn Roots Music

Jenny Lester

Learning to Fiddle

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"She has Kentucky bluegrass growing up and down her spine. An amazing singer, writer and player, she really, truly gets it."


John P. McLaughlin of the Vancouver Province


Jenny is a veteran stage performer, beginning on the fiddle at age eight with her family's Driftwood Canyon Family Band out of Smithers, B.C. After nearly a decade of touring festivals, Jenny won a musical scholarship to South Plains College in Texas, graduating with honors and three Golden Reel awards. She then joined Dark Horse out of Colorado, completing her first recording project with the band and touring throughout North America and in Japan, Korea, Guam, and the Marshall Islands.


Learn how to hold the fiddle and bow, tuning tips, how to tape your fretboard so you can find the notes, the A, G and D scales, working with a metronome, the Nashville shuffle, double stops, stretches, rosening your bow, drone notes and much more.


Songs Jenny teaches include: