“When I first heard Vanessa Jones...I had heard nothing about her. In the next year I played her more than any other artist. She didn’t earn this by being showy or dazzling me. She did something more important, her singing, fiddling, and songwriting reached into my heart. When you listen to Vanessa’s music you feel like it makes you a better person. ”

— Gordon Nash, DJ, “Gord’s Gold” show on the Folk Music Notebook

Vanessa jones

Vanessa Jones is a singer-songwriter, violinist, multi-instrumentalist, and studio musician from Maine.

Vanessa finds her musicial home in folk and Americana, often bringing her happy little collection of folk instruments. She enjoys bringing sparkle to the human experience through the sharing of songs based in honesty, imagery, truth, pain, and love.

Vanessa began her musical journey at the age of six, with violin lessons. As she developed musically, she performed with a variety of youth orchestras and classical ensembles throughout her childhood and into her teenaged years. Vanessa then put herself through college by playing at weddings on weekends with a string ensemble, and teaching violin and piano lessons during the week.

As an adult, Vanessa has performed with a startling variety of bands, from jazz, to punk, country, Celtic, rock, classical, Americana/folk, choral, theatre, blues, alternative, and beyond.  

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