Jenny Scheinman's All Species Parade at the Orpheum Theatre -- November 6.
Friday, November 6, 7 p.m.
Orpheum Theatre, 57 South Kellogg Street, Galesburg IL
Every year, the Jerome Mirza Jazz Residency brings world-class artists to Galesburg's Knox College for a week of workshops, masterclasses, and community engagement made possible through the generosity of the Jerome Mirza Foundation, and this year's special guests, the artists of Jenny Scheinman's All Species Parade, will entertain audiences at Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on November 6.
Jenny Scheinman is a violinist, fiddler, singer, and writer of songs with and without words. She grew up on a homestead in Northern California and has been performing since she was a teenager. She has worked extensively with some of the most innovative jazz artists in the world such as Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Jason Moran, Brian Blade, Allison Miller, Nels Cline, and Marc Ribot. Scheinman has also toured and recorded with numerous American songwriting legends, among them Lucinda Williams, Bruce Cockburn, Rodney Crowell, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Fulks and Ani Difranco.
In addition to being featured on the original cast recording of Anais Mitchell’s Tony- and Grammy-winning hit musical Hadestown. Scheinman, In March of 2015, premiered a multi- media performance at Duke University entitled Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait, which she continues to present in theaters around the country. She was recently voted the Violinist of the Year in the 2025 and 2026 Downbeat Critics Poll, and regularly tops audience and critic polls nationwide. To date, Scheinman has released 11 albums of original music: All Species Parade; Parlour Game; Here on Earth; The Littlest Prisoner, Mischief; & Mayhem; Jenny Scheinman; Crossing the Field; 12 Songs; Shalagaster; The Rabbi’s Lover; and Live at Yoshi’s.
On November 6, the day of her Jenny Scheinman's All Species Parade concert in Galesburg, the artist's latest recording One Hundred Years Today is set for release. As stated at JennyScheinman.com: "She had reconvened the superb, sensitively attuned ensemble first heard on her 2024 album All Species Parade: guitarists Bill Frisell and Julian Lage, pianist Carmen Staaf, bassist Tony Scherr, and drummer Kenny Wollesen. With seven new compositions in hand, largely inspired by her Palestinian Jewish grandmother’s travels through Europe a century ago, Scheinman and company were exploring emotional parallels between the years leading up to World War II and the present moment. She imagined the music flowing like a secret code passed between generations, a means of creating connection in times of upheaval. 'The phrase One Hundred Years Today is really another way of saying eternity,' Scheinman says. 'Every song is like a message in a bottle to a future generation, and at the same time the opening of a message from 100 years before.'"
Jenny Scheinman's All Species Parade closes their Jerome Mirza Jazz Residency engagement with a public Orpheum Theatre concert on November 6, the ensemble performing alongside the talents of the Knox Jazz Ensemble and the Cherry St. Combo. Admission to the 7 p.m. concert is free, with no tickets required, and more information on the night is available by calling (309)342-2299 and visiting GalesburgOrpheum.org.
