Minneapolis-based musician, educator, percussionist, recording artist, and visual artist Jenny Klukken stops by to talk about her portfolio career and the challenges of playing marimba in small rooms (04:50), her recording and compositional process, her new album Marimba Standard, and the importance of entrepreneurship in the arts (24:30), growing up in rural Minnesota, her enjoyment of jazz and early country music, Spotify Wrapped, and focusing on listening to albums (43:25), attending the University of Minnesota for undergrad, working through 4-mallet grips, her experiences attending the Zeltsman Marimba Festival, her puppetry career as “Jenny and the Pets”, and combining musical artistry with her visual artistry (01:05:45), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including her experiences as a woman in the arts, cooking stories, movies that inspire and/or infuriate, pet names and their backstories, living on a dairy farm, and Pat Metheny (01:35:25).

Finishing with a remembrance on the passing of an important living being (02:00:00).

Jenny Klukken Links:

Jenny Klukken’s new album Marimba Standard

Previous Podcast Guests Mentioned:

Fernando Meza in 2020

Eri Isomura in 2024

Josh Graham in 2025

Marco Schirripa in 2022

Abby Fisher in 2021

Lynn Vartan in 2019

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 488 - Jenny Klukken