Virginia Mae "Ginni" Clemmens was an American folk musician and songwriter in the genres of women's music and children's music.
10 Facts About Ginni Clemmens
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Ginni Clemmens was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2021.
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Ginni Clemmens's father was a big band musician and World War II veteran; her parents divorced in 1946, and both remarried.
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Ginni Clemmens attended high school and trained as a nurse in California.
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Ginni Clemmens worked as a pediatric nurse in California, and sometimes played her guitar or banjo for her young patients.
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Ginni Clemmens performed in folk clubs and at music festivals and benefit concerts from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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In 1976 Ginni Clemmens started her own label, Open Door Records, and released several more albums.
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Ginni Clemmens helped to produce the compilation album, Gay and Straight Together.
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Ginni Clemmens organized and performed at women's music festivals in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Ginni Clemmens died in 2003, at the age of 66, from injuries sustained in a car accident on Maui.