Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 488 - Jenny Klukken

Episode 488 - Jenny Klukken Pete's Percussion Podcast Minneapolis-based musician, educator, percussionist, recording artist, and visual artist Jenny Klukken stops by to talk about her portfolio career and the challenges of playing marimba in small rooms (04:50), her recording and compositional process, her new album Marimba Standard, and the importance of entrepreneurship in the arts (24:30), growing up in rural Minnesota, her enjoyment of jazz and early country music, Spotify Wrapped, and focusing on listening to albums (43:25), attending the University of Minnesota for undergrad, working through 4-mallet grips, her experiences attending the Zeltsman Marimba Festival, her puppetry career as “Jenny and the Pets”, and combining musical artistry with her visual artistry (01:05:45), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including her experiences as a woman in the arts, cooking stories, movies that inspire and/or infuriate, pet names and their backstories, living on a dairy farm, and Pat Metheny (01:35:25).Finishing with a remembrance on the passing of an important living being (02:00:00).Jenny Klukken Links:Jenny Klukken’s websiteJenny Klukken’s new album Marimba StandardPrevious Podcast Guests Mentioned:Fernando Meza in 2020Eri Isomura in 2024Josh Graham in 2025Marco Schirripa in 2022Abby Fisher in 2021Lynn Vartan in 2019Other Links:Steve YeagerEric SammutPete’s Marimba album“Shadows of the Night” - Pat BenatarAngela Myles Beeching“Don’t Fence Me In” - Gene Autry“Crowded Table” - The HighwomenNickel Creek’s NPR Music Tiny Desk ConcertNancy ZeltsmanJack van GeemIvana BilicMaurice’sKatarzyna MyckaKeiko AbeThe Emperor’s New Groove trailerThe Devil Wears Prada trailerThe Little Mermaid trailerRebecca trailerRebecca - Daphne du MaurierJane Eyre - Charlotte BrontëJames - Percival Everett“Kin” - Pat Metheny