Jennifer Armstrong

Storyteller

Jennifer Armstrong is a singer, storyteller, piper and poet living in Asheville, North Carolina. She has made her living as a performer and teacher of traditional music, story and dance for the past fifty years. She started at age five singing in a family band and was blessed with bedtime stories and lullabies and shares her legacy wherever she goes.

She's been a featured storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro; interviewed by Studs Terkel on WFMT; and by Noah Adams on NPR. She's sung with toddlers in church basements, told stories at library story nights, has published two children’s books, recorded seven CDs, and performed at thousands of schools nationwide.

She believes in our right to think for ourselves, the importance of creative self-expression, the joy of moving our bodies, the gift of lullabies to soothe and nurture and the expansiveness of gratitude and kindness.

She teaches old-time banjo, fiddle and bagpipe. She gives workshops in storytelling, poetry and songwriting. She is available for song and story programs in the Asheville area and across the country. She looks forward to visiting us and sharing the songs and stories that are important to our human family!