ennifer Jolly is a San Francisco Bay Area multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and educator specializing in roots music styles. She teaches keyboard classes and ensembles (New Orleans, Caribbean, African, blues/R&B, improv) at the Jazzschool, as well as camps, clinics, after-school programs, and in her private studio. Jennifer has performed extensively throughout California and the Western U.S., and at festivals in the U.S. and abroad. She is particularly regarded for her keyboard prowess in New Orleans R&B, blues/boogie-woogie, and rock/funk/R&B styles, and for the stylistic range and emotional depth of her songwriting. She currently performs on keyboards, melodica, guitar, and vocals with Jennifer Jolly & Friends, Nancy Wenstrom & The Restless Girls, Jean Fineberg’s JAZZphoria, Jean Fineberg’s The Party Monsters, The Rhinestone Reinhardts, Big B & His Snake Oil Saviors, Token Resistance, and Pat Wilder, among others. Jennifer frequently guest-performs with Tom Rigney & Flambeau, Shake It Booty Band, and Creekside Community Church Worship Band, and serves as accompanist for Redwood Day School. Previous credits include Pamela Rose’s “Blues is a Woman” show, Kotoja, Zulu Spear, Chelle! and Friends, Barbara Dane, David Gans & The Broken Angels, and Hot Links/Carnival.