“How’d you learn to write a song like that?” Townes Van Zandt to Jenni, Jan. 1996, after hearing her song “Two Sisters.”

Jenni Mansfield Peal is a songwriter and singer, guitarist, accordionist, and mountain dulcimist. Her experience includes two tours of Northern Ireland including The Queens University Festival in Belfast, main stage at the Kerrville Folk Festival, numerous original productions and ensembles, and fiveindependent albums. The Mr. Peppermint Show, a children’s television show produced at WFAA in Dallas, TX,  featured Jenni’s songs on multiple episodes that were syndicated world-wide for years starting in 1991. In 1990, Jenni won the Poor David’s Pub B.W. Stevenson Songwriting Contest in Dallas. Jenni was named The Best Folk Song Writer in North Texas by CBS DFW, among four, in October 2010. From October 2012 until February 2014, Jenni created and hosted the broadcast radio show “Everybody’s Folk” for KNON 89.3 FM in Dallas.

Since moving to the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado in 2015, Jenni has produced events including seven seasons of Ancient Valley Open Mic, the annual campout music event A Jam In The Rockies, and the Together SLV Fundraiser for La Puente. She has performed in ensembles and solo appearances around the SLV and was Artist in Residence for the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad for the 2019 season.

Jenni has had many audiences. She is a writer, a producer, an instrumentalist and song preservationist, a children’s entertainer and chanteuse to the elderly, and  a poet.

Independently Published Albums of Original Songs, Scatterbranch Music Publishing:

Big Wind, 1990, originally released on cassette, re-released on CD in 2006.
Pegasus Project: Ascension, 1991, no longer in print. Rupert Crabb, Linda Relph.

Flood, 2006

Putting On the Old Folk’s Clothes, 2008

Receiver, 2022

We hope you enjoy the originality of Jenni’s songs: A bookshelf of short, fat fictions with the world and all of us people as the characters.