BARRE – Ruth Moody, lead singer of The Wailin’ Jennys and frontwoman for her own band, stops at the Barre Opera House for a show on Friday, May 29, at 8 p.m.
Moody is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a solo artist and a founding and current member of The Wailin’ Jennys, she has garnered two JUNO Awards and performed to audiences in venues around the globe.
A first-generation Canadian immigrant, her early years were spent on a goat farm in rural Manitoba, where she grew up singing in harmony with her brother and sisters and was raised by a musician mother and an English-teaching father. By age twenty, she was traversing the continent in an old brown van with the roots band, Scrüj MacDuck, and went on to co-found The Wailin’ Jennys in 2002, and began her own solo career in 2010.
Moodsy splits her time between Vancouver Island and Nashville, and when she is not on the road with her band or The Wailin’ Jennys, she spends her time writing, hiking and keeping up with her eight-year-old son.
Tickets may be ordered online at barreoperahouse.org or call the Barre Opera House at (802) 476-8188. The Opera House, at 6 North Main Street in Barre, is handicapped accessible and equipped for the hearing impaired.
