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2026 APPEARANCES AND SHOWS

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  • Artist: Rivertown Folk, Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 02/28/26
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: Society Hall
  • City: Alamosa , Colorado
  • Address: 400 Ross Avenue
  • Venue phone: 719-580-7838
  • Country: United States
  • Admission: $20
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: Rivertown Folk is a duo out of Creede, CO that presents an outstanding repertoire with strong guitar support. I am honored to open for this act. This will be my first appearance at Society Hall, a wonderful midsized concert venue with great sound. Visit their web sight and you will see a great calendar of Americana and world music acts.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal with John Spengler
  • Date: 03/21/26
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: 1874 Distillery, Ltd
  • City: Del Norte , CO
  • Address: 645 Grand Ave
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: John Spengler is an outstanding songwriter and guitarist from Colorado Springs. You will love the powerful purpose he brings to his lyrics and fierce guitar chops. He and I will share the stage, trading out original and favorite cover songs. 1874 is part of The Windsor In Del Norte.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal Original
  • Date: 03/22/26
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: Vault 730
  • City: Del Norte , CO
  • Address: 730 Grand Ave.
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: No Minors
  • Notes: It’s a March Equinox and Aries birthday party with Jenni at this elegant and artistic venue. Enjoy curated small plates and beverage parings including wine, spirits, and a large NA selection. Customize you plate for food sensitivities. Jenni will have door prizes and is expecting some musician friends to drop by.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal with Frank Meyer
  • Date: 05/16/26
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: 1874 Distillery, Ltd
  • City: Del Norte , CO
  • Address: 645 Grand Ave
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: No Minors
  • Notes: Frank Meyer’s highly original songwriting will greatly complement my own, and I am thrilled to get to spend an evening trading songs with him. Frank is a Crestone, CO and Austin, TX musician. 1874 Distilling, Ltd is part of The Windsor Del Norte, which includes 1874 Food Truck, The Windsor Dining Room, and Bistro BARbara. If the weather is fine, we will be out in the courtyard!
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal with John Spengler
  • Date: 06/20/26
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: 1874 Distillery, Ltd
  • City: Del Norte , CO
  • Address: 645 Grand Ave
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: Please join Colorado Springs songwriter and musician and myself as we trade our original songs and covers. You sill love his on-target lyrics and fierce guitar chops. 1874 Distillery is part of The Windsor in Del Norte, which includes 1874 Food Truck, The Windsor Dining Room, and The Windsor BARbara.
  • Artist: Together SLV Fundraiser
  • Date: 07/05/26
  • Time: 11:00am
  • Venue: The Windsor Hotel
  • City: Del Norte , Colorado
  • Address: 605 Grand Ave
  • Country: United States
  • Admission: Donation
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: The band for this event is TBD at this time; please follow our Facebook page for updates. Thank you to The Windsor, Del Norte for sponsoring Together SLV events, which link local charities to purporting performance art.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal with Darrin Kobetich
  • Date: 08/09/26
  • Time: 11:00am
  • Venue: The Windsor Hotel
  • City: Del Norte , Colorado
  • Address: 605 Grand Ave
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: Darrin Kobetich is a guitarist who combines world beat and melodic inspiration to compose unique and compelling music. We will trade off material at this once-a-year show that I always look forward to. The Windsor Courtyard is a shady neighborhood hangout attached to two bars (1874 Distlilling, Ltd and Bistro BarBara) as well as the Windsor Hotel Dining Room and the 1874 Food Truck. No charge for this show.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal with John Spengler
  • Date: 09/26/26
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: 1874 Distillery, Ltd
  • City: Del Norte , CO
  • Address: 645 Grand Ave
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: Please join Colorado Springs songwriter and musician and myself as we trade our original songs and covers. You sill love his on-target lyrics and fierce guitar chops. 1874 Distillery is part of The Windsor in Del Norte, which includes 1874 Food Truck, The Windsor Dining Room, and The Windsor BARbara.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal with John Spengler
  • Date: 10/17/26
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: 1874 Distillery, Ltd
  • City: Del Norte , CO
  • Address: 645 Grand Ave
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: Please join Colorado Springs songwriter and musician and myself as we trade our original songs and covers. You sill love his on-target lyrics and fierce guitar chops. 1874 Distillery is part of The Windsor in Del Norte, which includes 1874 Food Truck, The Windsor Dining Room, and The Windsor BARbara.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal Original
  • Date: 10/24/26
  • Time: 7:00pm
  • Venue: The Church Project
  • City: Monte Vista , Colorado
  • Address: 256 S Broadway
  • Country: United States
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  • Notes: Join me for an evening of traditional and original balladry. This concert is a deep dive into what I’m best at, telling stories with songs. I’ll be showing my roots with a special emphasis on ghost and murder ballads for the spooky season.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal Original
  • Date: 12/13/26
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: The Church Project
  • City: Monte Vista , Colorado
  • Address: 256 S Broadway
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
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  • Notes: Valle Libre Open Mic is a dynamic community live performance series produced by Kevin Hernandez of L8gacy Project, as well as The Church Project. I will be the featured act on this date, but it will also be a regular open mic for participants.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal Original
  • Date: 12/18/26
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: The Windsor Hotel
  • City: Del Norte , Colorado
  • Address: 605 Grand Ave
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • More information
  • Notes: Holiday Pub Howl! Thank you to The Windsor/1874 Distilling, Ltd for sponsoring this fun event for the third year. Please follow our Facebook page for updates including guest song leaders and lyric sheets.
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Together SLV: Fundraisers Powered by Performance Art

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Annie Benjamin plays guitar, Jenni Mansfield Peal plays accordion on a stage.
Annie Benjamin, accompanied by Jenni Mansfield Peal on accordion, Together SLV,
Jenni beginning the show.
Annie Benjamin, songwriter from Albequerque, NM.

In response to the threat of food insecurity in the San Luis Valley in the winter of 2025-2026, , a coalition of performance artists led by Jenni Mansfield Peal produced two evenings of concert performance. January 2, hosted by Trade & Post in Del Norte, Annie Benjamin of Albequerque joined Jenni for a songwriter in the round concert. The next evening, January 3, nine acts appeared at Together SLV Live Stream, Live Stage Extravaganza Fundraiser for La Puente, hosted by The Church Project in Monte Vista.

Brian Mott Videography did a great job of streaming the event, and you can watch it on our dedicated support channel, Together SLV on YouTube!

Thank you to John McVey, photographer in Del Norte, for most of the photos on this page!

@TogetherSLV on YouTube

https://youtube.com/@togetherslv?si=ryhk5i6d7eVctvmQ

Also find out about new performance art fundraising events on Facebook.

@TogetherSLV on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/61583461239698/posts/pfbid03C4Humisut9pNzSKHJnKapFNMHu3W35eNs3M4vkV2RKHq9ETacau883bsr6EMCBJl/?

Getting ready for the big Together SLV show at The Church Project in Monte Vista. Thanks, Maddy Ahlborne, for sharing the vision!

Maddy Ahlborne, The Church Project
Greg Rosencrans, Riverbend Co
Kevin Hernandez, L8gacy Project
Sevun Star
Allison Cruse
Timo Perigo
Dave, SLV Food Co
Trio de Luz
Mark Hutchinson
Bradley Tatro
Julia Stempko
Julia Stempko and Patrice Palmer, Happy Buzz
Stella Dedenroth, Stage Director
Steve Hield
Soul Mountain Riders
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Rocky Mountain Pub Howls

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Jenni Mansfield Peal and her San Luis Valley musical friends produced five very fun Pub Howls with the help of our hosting sponsor, 1874 Distillery in Del Norte. They were a BLAST! Lots of great songs plus Special Guest Lead Singers and guest musicians made the evenings amazing. The Holiday Pub Howl in Dec 2024, then the St. Pat’s in March, Pride in June, and Farm and Labor in September, ending the season with another great Holiday Pub Howl in December 2025, included guests Alex Youngbird, Patrice Palmer, Wyatt Manobla, and many others.
Please follow our Facebook page, Rocky Mountain Pub Howl to stay informed of our upcoming Howls:

https://www.facebook.com/rocky.mountain.pub.howl?

Jenni with outstanding tenor Wyatt Manobla, St. Pat’s Pub Howl 2025, Del Norte.

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2024 Season Appearances

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Coming Up in the SLV!

Friday, September 13, 5:00-7:00pm ; SLV Museum, Alamosa, CO; Alamosa Arts Festival Reception, hosted by Alamosa Live Music Association. Free to the Public. free Parking on the street.

Saturday, September 14, 10:00-12:00; Alamosa Farmer’s Market; Hwy 160 west of State St. Lots of parking.

Sunday, September 22, 1:00-3:00; T-Road Brewery, Crestone, CO; Sunday Wine Down series.

Let’s make it happen! These songs aren’t going to sing themselves!

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  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 07/13/24
  • Time: 10:00am
  • Venue: The Market at South Fork
  • City: South Fork , Colorado
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: It’s a beautiful Rocky Mountain summer and I invite you to celebrate it with me ate The Market at South Fork. I will be playing family-friendly originals and covers for everybody’s enjoyment. Check out their page on FB for more!
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 07/19/24
  • Time: 10:00am
  • Venue: Creede Farmer’s Market
  • City: Creede , Colorado
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: Please join me in the sweet little mountain town in the glorious Rocky Mountain summer. I will be playing family-friendly originals and covers for everybody’s enjoyment.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 07/26/24
  • Time: 9:00am
  • Venue: Monte Vista Farmer’s Market
  • City: Monte Vista , Colorado
  • Address: Chapman Park
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: On Facebook: Monte Vista Farmer’s Market This summer the Monte Vista Framer’s Market is located in the parking lot behind Rainbrews on Main Street. The San Luis Valley is a foodie location in the summertime, and you can find some of the best that the valley has to offer in our small-town farmer’s and maker’s markets. Please join me on this date, 9:00-12:00 am. Let’s share some songs in the lovely Rocky Mountain outdoors!
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 08/02/24
  • Time: 9:00am
  • Venue: Monte Vista Farmer’s Market
  • City: Monte Vista , Colorado
  • Address: Chapman Park
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: I’ll be pitching tunes with guitar and mountain dulcimer until noon today, so drop by the parking lot behind Rainbrews on Main Street in Monte Vista and join me in the beautiful Rocky Mountain summertime.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 08/03/24
  • Time: 10:00am
  • Venue: Alamosa Farmer’s Market
  • City: Alamosa , Colorado
  • Address: Corner of State Street and Hwy 160
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: Come join me at the Alamosa Farmer’s Market! I’ll be singing a selection of my original songs plus many beloved covers.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal with Darrin Kobetich
  • Date: 08/07/24
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: Windsor Hotel/1874 Distillery
  • City: Del Norte , Colorado
  • Address: 605 Grand Avenue
  • Country: United States
  • Notes: Darrin and I will spend a lovely two hours sharing music on the back patio in the beautiful Rocky Mountain air. Have a bite to eat from the 1874 Food Truck and maybe a cocktail from the 1874 Distillery or the Windsor Bar. Darrin and I will both have albums to sell.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal with Darrin Kobetich
  • Date: 08/08/24 - 08/11/24
  • Time: 6:00pm
  • Venue: Penitente Canyon Recreation Area
  • City: Del Norte , Colorado
  • Address: County Road 38A
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
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  • Notes: A Jam In the Rockies is a campout jam event hosted by Tom and Jenni Peal. We have reserved Group Site One for the nightly jam circles, and there will be space for some tents. Not everybody camps, so if you need lodging you will find hotel and B&B options in the nearby towns of Del Norte, Monte Vista, and Saguache. Reserve an individual campsite at https://www.recreation.gov/. Ask to join our Facebook Group, A Jam In the Rockies, for info and updates.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 08/17/24
  • Time: 10:00am
  • Venue: The Market at South Fork
  • City: South Fork , Colorado
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: It’s a beautiful Rocky Mountain summer and I invite you to celebrate it with me ate The Market at South Fork. I will be playing family-friendly originals and covers for everybody’s enjoyment. Check out their page on FB for more!
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 09/06/24
  • Time: 9:00am
  • Venue: Monte Vista Farmer’s Market
  • City: Monte Vista , Colorado
  • Address: Chapman Park
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: I’ll be pitching tunes with guitar and mountain dulcimer until noon today, so drop by the parking lot behind Rainbrews on Main Street in Monte Vista and join me in the beautiful Rocky Mountain summertime.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 09/13/24
  • Time: 5:00pm
  • Venue: San Luis Valley Museum
  • City: Alamosa , Colorado
  • Address: 401 Hunt Avenue
  • Venue phone: 7192219597
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: I am so honored to provide the music for ALMA’s annual Alamosa Arts Festival Reception this year! This is a free public event in the breezy courtyard of the SLV Museum. Drop by and make some requests! I will be playing until 7:00.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 09/14/24
  • Time: 10:00am
  • Venue: Alamosa Farmer’s Market
  • City: Alamosa , Colorado
  • Address: Corner of State Street and Hwy 160
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: Come join me at the Alamosa Farmer’s Market! I’ll be singing a selection of my original songs plus many beloved covers.
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 09/17/24
  • Time: 1:00pm
  • Venue: Dallas Songwriters Association Global Showcase
  • City: Global. Live Streaming
  • Address: Facebook Live https://m.facebook.com/dallassongwriters/
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: I am honored to be September’s Featured Songwriter for the Dallas Songwriter’s Association monthly production. The interview, with some songs from me, will be recorded today to publish to their site on YouTube. I’ll put a post on this website as well as my Facebook pages when it drops!
  • Artist: Jenni Mansfield Peal
  • Date: 10/19/24
  • Time: 6:00am
  • Venue: The Starlight Theater
  • City: Terlingua , Texas
  • Address: 631 Ivey Road
  • Country: United States
  • Age restrictions: All Ages
  • Notes: I’m so honored to be chosen to perform at the Terlingua Music Bash! I will be performing as part of an evening of Americana artists from Texas and around the country. Visit back for more details! This is a year’s event will be a fundraiser for the Terlingua Consolidated School District.
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Vera Jayne and Norma Jean

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Jayne Mansfield and I share a name, and it’s because of my dad, Paul Mansfield. Vera Jayne Palmer Peers and Paul James Mansfield were married in 1950 at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. Not too long after that, my half-sister Jayne Marie was born. Then, a few years later, the couple moved to Hollywood and Jayne started her acting career. She became a big star, a bombshell. It all really exploded in 1957. Dad never felt comfortable with that lifestyle and they divorced – he found my mom, Sue, back in Dallas about a year later. Jayne had only ten more years before her fatal car crash on the road to New Orleans one dark night in 1967.

In this song, I sing of both Jayne and her contemporary bombshell and Hollywood rival, Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean) by trying to get at what it possibly could have been like to be an international sex symbol during those heady years. “Oh, for a Man,” heard as a refrain throughout the song, refers to one of Jayne’s more obscure movies and describes the panting nymphomania of the sex goddess archetype.

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The Hippie of White Rock Lake Live at Poor David’s Pub

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The Hippie of White Rock Lake Live at Poor David’s Pub (c) Jennifer M Peal

On October 30, 2021, I got to do the Halloween show at Poor David’s Pub in Dallas, TX. That’s where The Hippie got her debut, right there in her own home town.

Poor David’s is a legendary Americana and eclectic music venue in its fourth decade. Thank you so much to David Card for the concert and to Carlos Sanchez for recording it and making me sound so good onstage. And thank you so much to my audience who came out to the show, so many of them dear friends.

The lesson of this song is it takes one to know one. In Dallas.

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O, Lion

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In the year 1900, Pablo Picasso moved to Paris. He was around twenty and already the wonderboy of Barcelona.

Picasso quickly gathered a group of friends, an international circle of artists and writers whose daring and talent changed Western Art forever. Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and sometime pornographer, coined the term “Cubism” and died, regretful for dying young, of the Spanish Flu on Armistice Day, 1918. Max Jacob, who liked to fly high on Ether, pioneered absurdist poetry. Artists like Soutine, Matisse, Braque, and Modigliani were all part of the scene. Expatriot American writer Gertrude Stein facilitated the success of modern art with her salons.

“O, Lion” is a line from one of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poems: Oh, lion, unhappy image of sadly fallen kings … These artists saw the fall of the old empires and were part of the new, modern spirit of rebellion. They were serious about art and reckless with it, producing for their time and place and for eternity. They believed in the importance of their moment and in each other. In order to sing my tribute to them, I had to make myself into an old barber, finding an old razor blade with Picasso’s blood on it. That old barber was young in 1902. He kept that old blade for the rest of his life.

Pablo Picasso and Max Jacob, early twentieth century. Photo from Tumblr.

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Receiver CDs are here!

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Please let me know if you would like to order my new CD, Receiver. I will be sending them out myself. For $15 each, I will send them directly to the postal address you supply. Pay me through paypal or by check. If paying by check, I’ll send a mailing address when I get your request.

Songs:

The Snow On The Pine, The Godless Rambler, My Father’s Cigarette In The Dark, Angry Sister, Evalina, Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor, Keep Tamales In Christmas, Receiver, The Hippie Of White Rock Lake Recorded Live at Poor David’s Pub, Dallas, TX.

Contact me here: jenni@jennimansfieldpeal.com

Pay me here: My PayPal link.

I hope you love Receiver!