[ATTENDED: January 30, 2016] Jill Hennessy
Jill Hennessy is an actress who was on Law & Order from 1993-1996 and then starred on Crossing Jordan. She is one of the reasons I watched L&O for the couple seasons that I did. I pretty much stopped once she left, although I never watched Jordan).
I genuinely didn’t think that this was the same Jill Hennessy. It’s been twenty years and all, but she looks so different (ans still so young) and the name didn’t seem that uncommon. But nope. It’s her. She started playing music a long time ago. She was busking in the subway in New York before getting a big Broadway gig. And in fact, she appeared with the Indigo Girls in a Mountain Stage concert back in 2009 (it’s on NPR here). Hennessy’s voice suits the Indigo Girls very well, she even sounds a bit like Amy Ray if you don’t think too hard about it.
Before the concert, I looked her up online and saw her bio–she’s from Edmonton, Alberta–and has been acting for ages. She was even a candidate to be Scully on The X-Files.
Then I found a few songs and really liked what I heard–she’s sorta country but more in line with the style of the Indigo Girls. So I was looking forward to hearing her.
We may have missed a song or two, I can’t find setlists online anywhere, but she played a fairly long and solid set. (more…)
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