Abby Jenne and the Enablers: Bio
Abby Jenne - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Abby Jenne is pigeon-toed. Abby was born in Exeter, NH. She started playing piano when she was 5, cello at 9, and guitar at 14 and has been performing in front of others since she can remember. Since then, she has starred in musicals, played in coffee houses, dropped out of school, waited tables, played on street corners and parking lots and at bars all over the country.
After moving to Vermont in 1996 (completely by accident, house sat for two weeks, got a job, married a native, formed a band, divorced a redneck, moved to Montpelier) she’s recorded an EP, won WNCS’S open mike open, has had songs featured in two films, has been featured on the Point’s 5’O clock shadow, and been played on radio stations as far away as Arizona, California, Oregon and China. She released her debut album "Random Road" in April 2004 which received good reviews even though a few of the songs were written in twenty minutes or less. She has been a guest on WCAX's Late Night Saturday and was featured in an article in Vermont Woman Magazine in December 2006.
Currently Abby is playing with the Enablers, also known as The Best Band, Ever and trying to write her second album.
Mark LeGrand - Bass
Mark LeGrand has been playing music in Vermont since 1967. Moving as a youngster from the coast of Connecticut at age fourteen Mark says was "like moving into a Norman Rockwell painting." Maybe it seemed that way because he moved to West Arlington, Vermont, where the famous painter lived and many of the townspeople were the subjects of his paintings. Mark carried around an old acoustic guitar and had a head filled with New York City radio waves and a heart filled with homesickness.. A school friend turned him onto Hank Williams via a 78 rpm crank up Victrola at a deer camp and Mark was never the same again. He already had The Lovesick Blues, and now he knew what they sounded like. Mark was in the first electric band in West Arlington and when they played outside on warm summer nights all the cows must have loved it. He returns to the bass guitar (his first love) in the Enablers.
Dug Reid - Fiddle
Doug is a commercial violinist because he doesn't know how to do anything else. Though no one remembers, he has been famous three times in his career, and has performed in hundreds of shows with some of the biggest names in country-western music, appearing on Entertainment Tonight, CBS, NBC, TNN, and RFD-TV. In an effort to escape Hicksville, he spent three years studying jazz, composition, and orchestration at Berklee's rival, North Texas State University; but then got hired by Jim ("Spiders & Snakes") Stafford as Music Director at Jim's Branson theater-- so back with hicks for seven years. But Doug likes hicks anyway.
After a few years performing and arranging in Manhattan, Doug returned to Vermont, where he now plays with multiple bands for fun and semi-profit. Contrary to unsubstantiated rumor, he never worked with the alt-alt band Toenail Fungus.
Dave Hevrin - drums
We know nothing about Dave. Dubious origins, to say the least. He showed up at the kit one day and we decided to keep him because he is funny and plays good drums.