Prudence Johnson

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With her roots in folk and country music, Prudence Johnson developed a passion for jazz and the work of the 20th century's great songwriters when she met guitarist Tim Sparks, with whom she co-founded the vocal jazz group Rio Nido. A decade and three albums later, she ventured out on her own and turned again to the music of her roots, making three records for the folk label Red House including Songs of Greg Brown and Little Dreamer, a collection of international lullabies.

Her career has taken her from honky-tonks to Carnegie Hall, from the theater stage to the Silver Screen, from the Midwest to the Middle East. She is a regular guest on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the country, and appears as one of the "regulars" in Robert Altman's 2006 A Prairie Home Companion movie. Her film credits also include Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It in a role she was born to play-a singer!

In the 90's she could be found on the concert circuit, in the jazz clubs, on the theater stage and in the classroom—she graduated summa cum laude from Hamline University in 1998. If the collision of her artistic and academic interests left her looking a bit dazed, it all came into focus when she turned her attention to the music of Hoagy Carmichael and was awarded a McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians, enabling her to record Moon Country, a collection of Hoagy's songs.

Prudence Johnson is a 2001 recipient of the McKnight Artists Fellowship for Performing Musicians, and enjoys a steady schedule of concert appearances across the country. Ahe lives in Minneapolis, MN and is working on a play and a few new recording projects, enjoying her work with A Prairie Home Companion, and having a wonderful time bringing the music she loves to new audiences.

A Girl Named Vincent An exciting collection of songs based on the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, created and performed by Prudence Johnson and The Millay Project. "A Girl Named Vincent is a work of transcendent beauty and unexpected breadth. We've all heard pretentious and deadly art-song arrangements of poems; this is as far away from that as you can get. A Girl Named Vincent is a rare pairing of wonderful words with tuneful, totally listenable music. It's full of feeling and meaning, and often fun. These are songs you can (and will want to) hear again and again, hum along with, tap your foot to." - bebopified, April 13, 2011 CD Price: $14.97

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