Jami Lunde

Lyons, CO

Biography

Reverb Drench songs for the sad at heart. Fesitvals: Rocky Mountain Folks Festival-Lyons, Winter Park Folk Festival-Winter Park, Grand County Blues Festival-Granby Venues Played: Colorado: Planet Bluegrass Wildflower Pavillion-Lyons, Swallow Hil -Denver, The D Note-Arvada, Soiled Dove-Denver, Oskar Blues-Lyons. Illinois: Uncommon Ground,Chicago Indiana: Front Porch Music,Valparaiso, IN California: Ananda-Venice, Ca., Skylark- Venice, CA Conferences: National Folk Alliance Conference: Austin and San Diego Jami is a tell it like it is singer songwriter that wears her heart on her sleeve. Her first album released in 2003,Butterfly With Broken Wings, featured the song Porter County Line co-written with Stacey Earle and paved the way for Jami to end up sharing many stages along the way with the likes of Shawn Colvin, Drew Emmitt, James McMurtry, John Gorka, Kathleen Edwards, Chatham County Line & more. Jami is currently working on her 2nd album locally in Lyons with Eben Grace and a handful of redicously talented Lyons’ resident musicians. Jami’s sound falls some where in the neighborhood of Kathleen Edwards & early Lucinda Williams but Jami’s voice is uniquely her own. “I was captivated by Jami’s go for broke attitude on stage and her writing has a maturity that I appreciate. I think she’s going places”- Songwriter Don Conoscenti “ I wanted to sit and listen to Jami night. Her imagery is fantastic- she has this way of describing the most ordinary aspects of life so that they just become extra ordinary”- Songwriter Marcy Baruch “Jami Lunde’s music call down the thunder and lightening while celebrating the sweetness of connections and small town life. There’s an ache in her voice and a charm to her lyrics and melodies that hum in the ear and the heart. If you have a chance to see her live show you’ll know how completely her CD ‘Butterfly with Broken Wings ’ captures Jami as she is- at home with herself; unafraid to leave this foot print as she walks steadily into her starry-skied future” songwriter Lisa Mandelstein Jami Lunde grew up in a very musical family in Northern Indiana where her mother ran and booked a folk music venue. There were guitars left out from the night before. Mandolins, banjos and broken strings were strewn about the house. She was fed on a steady diet of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Rolling Stones, Emmy Lou Harris and even New Grass Revival (a House favorite). Jami got her first guitar and a handful of lessons at 8 years old. She’d later sell it to go on tour with the Grateful Dead in her teen years but she never forgot how to play it. She moved to Winter Park, Colorado when she was 20 years old and fell in love with a bass player who had a guitar laying around his house. That felt right to her. She married that bass player. Jami started playing his guitar and started writing her own songs. In 2003 Jami released her first album, Butterfly With Broken Wings and did every show she could. She attended many major festivals around the country and especially all the ones in her own back yard like The Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Rocky Grass and The Folks Festival .She finally fell into the safe hands of the Rocky Mountain Song School which she attended for more years than she can remember. It was here she learned how to really focus on her sound and her songwriting. It was also here that she learned all about the business of festivals, concerts and booking. She came to create and produce the Winter Park Folk Festival 2004-2007 and started her own music event production company, Awnry Girl Productions. Jami put being a touring singer/songwriter on the back burner and focused mainly on The Winter Park Folk Festival, several music series and booked music for a number of venues. She managed though to share the bill with many of her musical influences like Kathleen Edwards, Open Road Bluegrass, Shawn Colvin, Drew Emmitt and more. She never stopped writing songs. In 2007 after the death of one of her closest friends who died on his 31st birthday and the loss of her marriage, Jami moved to Venice, California. She then traveled through Thailand and Indonesia solo for a few months before finally landing in the summer of 2008 in Lyons, Colorado. There was no other place to go. Jami has found herself in one of the most musical communities and is finally nurturing the artist she’s put on hold for a number of years. Currently working on her 2nd album in a studio just about a minute’s walk away from her house in downtown Lyons. The album is being produced and engineered by the ridiculously talented Eben Grace. Jami has also been balancing out her musical production side by working at Oskar Blues, in Lyons, bringing Awnry Girl Production’s wildly popular tribute nights (Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles , soon Hank I,II & III and Gram Parsons) and will also be doing more productions of out door shows this summer. Jami’s sound has been likened to Kathleen Edwards and Lucinda Williams but she sounds just as herself. A little bit country and come on Donnie, a little bit rock and roll... 2009 is finally her time to shine... From the Winter Park Manifest April 2009: With sorrow in her heart and the Fraser Valley in her rearview mirror, Jami Lunde set out for a new life in 2007. Now celebrating a “new beginning,” Lunde is letting her old friends know she will be one of three top Colorado songwriters featured in a concert in Lyons this weekend. Lunde, who now lives in Lyons, called Winter Park home for 15 years. While in the area she entertained audiences at many shows, including the Winter Park Folk Festival and Fraser Picnics in the Park with Awnry Girl Productions. Since then she has been “traveling around” and is also recording her second, self-titled solo album. Executive producer is Scotty Anderson, former co-owner of Icebox Mountain Sports. A couple of the songs on the new CD pay tribute to Craig “Craigy-T” Thomason, One Time keyboard player who lost a battle with cancer in 2007. In fact, Lunde said, her whole life changed that fateful day. That’s when she left for Lyons, “a super-musical town with ridiculously talented musicians everywhere you go” — a place similar to the home she grew to love. Planet Bluegrass is the entity that has for years hosted the popular Rocky Grass and the Folks festivals. “It’s really a big deal,” Lunde said. “So many musicians would give their right eye to get to play there for them.” Backing her up for the upcoming performance will be her band: Eben Grace, Brian Schey, and One Time drummer Ian Morlock. She says “somehow” she got her own show there, “an enormous honor,” and something she’s waited her whole life for. Her sound has been compared to that of Kathleen Edwards and Lucinda Williams and has graced stages of musicians like Shawn Colvin and John Gorka. Lunde has invited Hamer and Reed Foehl to join her for the concert, two of her favorite songwriters and musicians. The musicians will play individual sets, collaboratively, and special guests Eric Thorin, Eric Deutch, and Christian Teele). “(Foehl) sings like he feels every note,” states the Boston Globe. “Each song tells a story, all of which he relates astonishingly well.” He is the principal songwriter for Acoustic Junction/Fool’s Progress and has shared the stage with big names such as Patty Griffin, Taj Mahal, Dave Matthews and Ray LaMontagne. Hamer, of Great American Taxi, has spent at least the last 10 in Boulder sharing originals and playing the band’s signature Americana on lead guitar at national festivals. He also plays progressive acoustic with Single Malt, and tenor banjo with Irish quartet The Wayfarers. Recently he co-produced Foehl’s new solo album, which also features some of the ladies from The Be Good Tanyas. “I’d love to let my friends and community in Grand County know about (the show),” Lunde said. “You were there from the beginning. Now I am beginning again.”

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