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Jen Foster is an award-winning singer/songwriter who runs her independent record label, Fosterchild Records, in Nashville, TN. Influenced heavily by classic artists such as the Rolling Stones, U2, and Bob Dylan, Jen has spent a large part of the last 2 years in a Nashville recording studio working on her upcoming third album, Thirty-Nine. Along with her producer, Greg Droman, Jen put together an all-star group of musicians to perform on the tracks, including Peter Stroud (Sheryl Crow), Rami Jaffee (Foo Fighters, The Wallflowers), Sean Hurley (John Mayer, Vertical Horizon), and Fred Eltringham (The Wallflowers, Dixie Chicks, The Wreckers). In April of 2008, Foster released an EP, Songs From Thirty-Nine, which featured the single "Closer To Nowhere", and filmed the video for the song, which quickly went to #1 on the LOGO channel and stayed on their Top 10 list for nearly 6 months. From these songs and more, the full length Thirty-Nine was created. The project embodies a blend of sounds which range from soft, lazy-day melodies to more raucous guitar-driven tracks. Some of these new songs have already garnered Jen national attention: in addition to the success of the first single Closer to Nowhere on the LOGO channel, the track also won first place in the International Songwriting Competition (Triple A category). In addition, Jen's original song, Venice Beach, was recently a finalist in the 2008 John Lennon Songwriting Contest, as well as in the New York Songwriter's Circle. Previously, Jen has also secured some impressive Film/TV placements, with songs placed in the popular television soap opera "All My Children" as well as a recent placement in an "American Pie" movie sequel. When she's not busy recording or writing and co-writing songs in Nashville, Jen also tours nationally and has shared stages with Melissa Etheridge, John Mayer, Patty Griffin, and many others. She also created a quarterly songwriters' series in Nashville called "The Writer's Share", to benefit the TJ Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer, and AIDS Research. This event will be at the Bluebird Cafe One other thing I'm excited about is the quarterly songwriters' series I'm launching, called "The Writer's Share." This is a cause that is near and dear to her heart, of which she is deeply honored to be hosting these amazing writers.