booking
Jeri Katherine Howell is available to book for concerts, private events, public speaking/lectures, workshops and residencies (see descriptions below).
Concerts can be booked as a solo, duo (with Nat Colten - banjo/guitar/vocals), trio (duo plus fiddle) or full band (trio plus percussion/bass) performance.
For booking, please include the venue, organization, or event you are associated with, location, date, set time, duration of performance and offer. If you do not have an offer, we will send you sliding scale pricing details.
CONCERTS
Jeri Katherine is booking concerts as a solo, duo, trio or full band act, performing one to two sets. She performs for venues that intentionally center the musical/creative experience, such as a listening room, house concert, educational performance, or music festival. It is preferable for the venue to provide sound production, but Jeri Katherine can provide sound production for an additional fee.
Previous concerts include Grand Theatre (Frankfort, KY, 2023), House of Jane Songwriter Sessions (Madison, IN, 2023), Arts Center of the Bluegrass (Danville, KY, 2023), Louisville Folk School Shady Grove Summer Stage (Louisville, KY, 2023), The Burl (Lexington, KY, 2020), Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest ColorFest (Clermont, KY, 2019), Senora May's Sweet Thing Jamboree (Irvine, KY, 2019), Kentucky Arts Council's Kentucky Crafted Market (Lexington, KY, 2019), Downtown Art Walk (Rutland, VT, 2018), Costa Rica Institute of Technology Theatre (Santa Clara, Alajuela, Costa Rica, 2017), Yamaguchi University Bluegrass Week (Yamaguchi, Japan, 2016), Brooklyn Music Factory (Brooklyn, NY, 2016), and a variety of private house concerts around the world (2010-present).
PRIVATE EVENTS
Jeri Katherine considers it an honor to contribute music for those special, often vulnerable, private moments in your life. Examples include performing pre-selected songs for a wedding ceremony, anniversary, celebration of life, or other special ceremony. These performances are paid. It is preferable that the venue provide sound production, but Jeri Katherine can provide sound production for an additional fee.
PUBLIC SPEAKING + LECTURES
Jeri Katherine is a poised, engaging and empowering public speaker and lecturer who draws from her interdisciplinary educational, creative, and life experiences. Topics may include environmental education, arts education, social justice, environmental justice, climate change leadership, community development, community based learning, community engagement, facilitation, creativity, and personal and organizational development. Past examples include serving as a keynote speaker at The Bonner Foundation's National Congress (2019, topic: art, music & social justice) and Kentucky Environmental Education Council & Kentucky Department of Education’s Green and Healthy Schools Awards Summit (2018, topic: youth environmental leadership), a panelist at U.S. Department of State and World Learning’s U.S. Alumni Thematic International Exchange Seminar on Substance Abuse Prevention & The Arts (2018) and Norton Center for the Arts Creative Conversations: Being a Woman in the Arts World Today (2018), a guest speaker for the University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College Singletary Scholars Program (2020, topic: my leadership journey) and the New Leaders Council Kentucky Changemakers Institute (2023, topic: joy, wellbeing & community building), and a guest lecturer for Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program (2022, topic: music career & songwriting) and Centre College Music Program (2019 & 2020, topics: songwriting, flat footing & Irish roots of Kentucky music).
WORKSHOPS + RESIDENCIES
Jeri Katherine is a skilled and experienced teaching artist, focused on songwriting and arts-based environmental education with a trauma-informed lens. Since 2010, she has taught for community groups, after school programs, universities, and elementary and high schools for a range of 1-hour workshops to multi-day residencies. She is an adjudicated member of the Partners for Rural Impact and Kentucky Arts Council's Teaching Artist Rosters. In 2018, she was awarded the Kentucky Foundation for Women Firestarter Award for her songwriting and teaching artist projects that foster social change. As a teaching artist, Howell also draws from her formal education: M.S. Community and Leadership Development, B.A. Spanish and Environmental Studies, and certifications in environmental education, teaching English as a Foreign Language, Kentucky Community Scholar, and Youth Mental Health First Aid. These are paid opportunities. Previous teaching artist workshop and residency examples include a multi-day songwriting and concert video performance residency at Model Laboratory High School (Richmond, KY, 2022), Yes Arts middle & high school multi-day songwriting workshop (Frankfort, KY, 2021), multi-day virtual songwriting residency with Lynn Camp Middle/High School Visual & Performing Arts students (2020), “HeARTs Virtual Classroom Communities: Building Safe, Inclusive & Creative Virtual Classroom Communities” at the Berea College Virtual Festival of Learnshops (2020), Fulbright U.S. Student English Teaching Assistantship Access Scholarship Program Teacher (Santa Clara, Alajuela, Costa Rica, 2017), and Cowan Creek Mountain Music School (Whitesburg, KY, intermittent 2014-2019, topics: old time harmony singing, Kids on the Creek, guitar, old time string band).
contact
For booking, please include the venue, organization, or event you are associated with, location, date, set time, duration of performance and offer. If you do not have an offer, we will send you sliding scale pricing details.