1. Jennifer Maidman is a British musician, singer, producer, songwriter, actress and author who has collaborated extensively with many internationally well known groups and artists.
16 Facts About Jennifer Maidman
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Jennifer Maidman was a core member of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra from 1984 until 2007.
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Jennifer Maidman is best known as a bass guitarist but sings and plays guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, ukulele, cuatro and Chapman Stick.
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Jennifer Maidman co-wrote, arranged and recorded a number of songs with Boy George and Bobby Z, which appeared on the albums Tense Nervous Headache and High Hat and went on to work again with Z on the album Gobe by French artist Guesch Patti, on which she arranged and played all instruments.
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Jennifer Maidman has written for Sam Brown, Eurovision entrants Bardo, and Murray Head.
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Jennifer Maidman has written and worked extensively with her partner, the English trombonist Annie Whitehead and produced and played on her albums Naked, Home and The Gathering.
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Jennifer Maidman produced two albums by the Irish singer songwriter Paul Brady, Back to the Centre and Primitive Dance, produced and performed on tracks on Linda McCartney's solo album Wide Prairie, and has produced Murray Head, Dutch African band Pili Pili, The Kick Horns, Northern Lights, and Lund.
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Jennifer Maidman contributed guitar and accordion on Robert Wyatt's album Cuckooland, nominated for the 2004 Mercury Music prize.
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In 2015 The Vicar Street Sessions Volume One was released, on which Jennifer Maidman accompanies Paul Brady, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Bonnie Raitt and Ronan Keating amongst others.
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Jennifer Maidman has performed throughout Europe, the UK, Ireland, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, appearing live with amongst others Joan Armatrading, Paul Brady, David Sylvian, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Murray Head, Bonnie Raitt, Terry Reid, Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, Curtis Stigers, Boy George, Tony O'Malley and Kokomo.
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Major television appearances include a South Bank Show documentary as a member of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, a six-part RTE series on Paul Brady, and a BBC4 documentary on Robert Wyatt, in which Jennifer Maidman appeared alongside Robert on lead vocals, guitar and accordion.
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Jennifer Maidman has appeared at a number of performance poetry events with the beat poet Michael Horovitz, and with Penny Rimbeau's Last Amendment, including a concert at the National Cite' de la Musique Museum's auditorium in Paris.
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Jennifer Maidman collaborated with James Tartaglia on albums influenced by Tartaglia's philosophy work, 'Dark Metaphysic' and 'Kooky Steps'.
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In January 2019 Jennifer Maidman appeared in Leah Coloff's musical theatre piece This Tree, which premiered at the Prototype Festival in New York City.
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Jennifer Maidman is a trained therapist and member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy who has written on the subject of Humanistic Psychology for professional journals, and contributed chapters to, and edited "The Future of Humanistic Psychology", described by Professor Arthur Bohart of California State University as "a profoundly important book".
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Jennifer Maidman again contributed chapters and co-edited the book with Dr Richard House and David Kalisch.