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Jenny Ritter
Coming from a background saturated in music, Jenny really had no choice but to follow the path of an active musician. When she was very young, her Dad was an tenor in the opera, while Ma Ritter ran a ballet school. She sat under the piano during rehearsals, and presumably soaked it all in because... well, look where she is now!  After years of torturous Conservatory piano lessons, she was given a guitar for her fifteenth birthday, and took to it like a fish to water. After squeaking through her high school jazz program, there followed  a year of vagabonding around the US with Nicely Nicely, an acoustic rock quartet when Jenny was at the tender age of 18. Then...with a newfound appreciation for beer and travel, in 2000 Jenny joined Phaedra (and ex-fiddler, Heather Cunliffe) to create Billy Goats Gruff. The rest is band history...
These days Jenny currently resides in a wee house near the ocean in Victoria, BC, where she procrastinates practicing guitar by playing banjo instead, and is enjoying a healthy caffeine addiction. She freelances on Irish guitar with renowned fiddler, Daniel Lapp, a Victoria staple for folk music. She's also the main organizer of Roof Rabbit, a hip and contemporary Irish instrumental quartet.  To this day Jenny remains an all weather cyclist, a lover of nature, and an obsessive Sunday crossword puzzle nut.
 

Tune in!
to CBC Radio 2 to hear our set from the Mission
Folk Festival on CBC's Canada Live on Sunday Nov 2 from 8-10

We've been invited to showcase at Alberta Contact and the WCMAs (Oct 17-19), the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils annual conference
(Oct 30 - Nov 1) and Arts Northwest in Eugene Oregon (Oct 13 - 16)!

New album!
February 2008 brings "A Trail of Missing Thoughts" which is now available from CD Baby! (So is "The Gruff") (www.cdbaby.com)
Click here to order!

You can now collect your favourite tunes off of our latest albums from iTunes! Download and be merry.

Pick up the Spring 2007 issue of Penguin Eggs magazine to read our new article!

Yay us! We're happy to announce we were presented "Artist of the Year" at the 2007 Vancouver Island Music Awards.