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). 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: the single “Closer to Nowhere” recently won first place in the International Songwriting Competition (Triple A category) and the accompanying music video for the song hit 1 for several weeks on the LOGO network. 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.
Jen's upcoming project, "Thirty-Nine", is due for release this summer (2009). Her music is currently available at iTunes, CD Baby, & Amazon.com, as well as on Bandbox at her newly-designed website - www.jenfoster.com.
April 29, 2009
*Buzz on The Writer's Share is stirring up! Find out more about it here on Music Row, Nashville's Music Industry Publication
April 22, 2009
*AfterEllen posts the full interview of "Jen Foster on Women and Song"
April 14, 2009
*Read Jen's article on AfterEllen.
April 13, 2009
*The song "Closer To Nowhere" will be featured tonight on MTV's docudrama The Hills. Check it out at 9 pm central time.
March 25, 2009
*Read Jen's interview about her new single "I Didn't Just Kiss Her" on Cherry Grrl.com.
March 17, 2008
*Check out Jen's new interview in the Nashville Examiner!
March 6, 2009
*Jen's on the cover of Australia's LOTL Magazine. Read the article here.
March 2, 2009
*Jen's song "Poet," from her forthcoming project Thirty-Nine, places as a semifinalist in the International Songwriting Competition.
January 6, 2009
*Jen's video for the song "Closer To Nowhere" jumps to the 1 spot on Logo's Click List! Check it out!
December 15, 2008
*The "Closer To Nowhere" video takes the 3 spot on Logo's Best Videos of 2008
October 24, 2008
*Jen is the 2008 Independent Singer Songwriters Association (ISSA) rock category winner in the 2008 ISSA Singer-Songwriter Song Contest. She was selected from among thousands of talented artists who submitted to the contest. See all of the contest winners.
October 16, 2008
*Jen has made the Top 12 Finalists for the 2008 New York Songwriter's Circle with her song "Venice Beach." (This organization was instrumental in breaking Kate Voegele, etc... Gavin DeGraw is also involved with them). The next step? Going to NYC to perform at The Bitter End on November 5 and 6 to play the song before a panel of judges. Win or lose, the song is going on their compilation CD of the finalists! Find out more about the contest and organization.
October 15, 2008
*Check out this blog by Z. Mulls. He and Jen recently wrote a song together.
October 14, 2008
*Jen has been selected as a nominee for the 2008 Independent Singer Songwriters Award Contest for two of her songs: "Closer To Nowhere" (rock category) and "Talk Me Home" (folk category)! Check out the award here.
October 4, 2008
*Jen has co-written a song called "Everything I've Never Seen" with Greg Crowe. Van Preston is the country artist who has recorded and performs the song. The song is now 36 on the US Country Music Weekly Charts, and Van Preston currently on tour opening for artists like Martina McBride & James Taylor.
September 30, 2008
*Jen Foster's recent interview with Cherry Grrl is up on their site. In August of 2008 Cherry Grrl and Cherrygrrl.com were launched with the goal of bringing fresh news and juicy bits of entertainment to the lesbian community. They are dedicated to keeping you up-to-date with the entertainment, news, and cultural information that matters most to the lesbian community.
September 15, 2008
*Jen's video "Closer To Nowhere" is featured on the blog "After Ellen." Check it out here.
September 4, 2008
*Nashville's local GLBT newspaper, Out & About, featured an article on Sweet Cruise Lines & Jen's involvement. Check out the article here.
September 1, 2008
*Jen's song "Venice Beach" from Songs From Thirty-Nine just placed as finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Awards (folk category)! Check it out.
August 5, 2008
*Well-known writer Jane Devin features Jen on her website! Please click here to check it out.
August 3, 2008
*Jen's music has recently been featured on the podcast Longtown Sound 403. Check it out here.
July 14, 2008
*Read the article about Jen in Nashville's GLBT paper Out & About here. Scroll down to the bottom.
July 13, 2008
*Jen's video "Closer To Nowhere" was featured tonight on the LOGO Channel's program New Now Next! Stay tuned for details on how you can vote to keep it on the channel.
July 13, 2008
*Check out Jen's feature on Women's Radio here!
June 27, 2008
*Jen's video "Closer To Nowhere" will be featured on the Home Grown TV Show in August 2008 every Saturday night at 10:30 pm (Eastern time) on channel 115 in the New York tri-state area.
April 10, 2008
*Jen Foster has just won first place in the Triple A category in the International Songwriting Competition for her song "Closer To Nowhere." There were over 15,000 entries and the judges included: Amy Ray (Indigo Girls), Nelly Furtado, Tom Waits, Macy Gray, Loretta Lynn, & more. Check out the winners and the competition here.
April 9, 2008
*Jen will be appearing on Nashville's radio station Lightning 100 on April 16th at 3 p.m. TUNE IN! And for those of you outside of the Nashville area, you can listen online and find more information here. Jen will be debuting her new radio single, "Closer To Nowhere" as well as another new track from the forthcoming EP.
April 3, 2008
*The Nashville Rage has a full page article this week on how Jen, as an independent artist, has capitalized on the success of MySpace. Read the electronic version here. Or view the actual article here.
March 29, 2008
*LOVEGIRLS online Magazine posts their exclusive UK interview with Jen. Though Jen is in the midst of a busy touring schedule she was happy to give a candid interview to LOVEGIRLS. You can check out the interview here.
March 26, 2008
*Van Preston, a Nashville-based country songwriter and performer recently cut one of Jen's songs, "Everything I've Never Seen." The song just recently went to 21 on the European radio charts (that's out of 800 stations!) and it has stayed there for two weeks straight.
Jen co-wrote this song with Greg Crowe who has also written songs for Montgomery Gentry, Sammy Kershaw, and more. He also wrote, sang, and produced the official song for The Tennessee Titans Radio Network, “We’re Fired Up,” and was nominated as a producer for European country music.
You can check out Van's version of the song here. Congrats to Van! ENJOY!
January 29, 2008
* Jen was just nominated as a semi-finalist in the
2007 International Songwriting Competition for two of her new upcoming tracks, "Closer To Nowhere," and "Venice Beach." The finalists will be notified on February 4th and then you, the fans, will have a chance to vote in the ISC's Peoples' Voice. A link will be posted next week.
January 24, 2008
*Great Response from an awesome
MYSPACE Site-The Lesbian Lounge. The Lesbian Lounge podcast got over 3,000 downloads JUST THIS WEEK alone!! That's huge numbers for this podcast, and they credit me, my music, and my AWESOME dedicated fans.
1.) "Closer To Nowhere" - 2008 ROCK CATEGORY WINNER, INDIE SINGER-SONGWRITER ASSOCIATION SONGWRITING CONTEST
2.) "Venice Beach" - TOP 12 FINALIST, 2008 NEW YORK SONGWRITERS CIRCLE
3.) "Venice Beach" - FINALIST, JOHN LENNON SONGWRITING AWARDS, FOLK CATEGORY
4.) "Closer To Nowhere" - WINNER, TRIPLE A CATEGORY, INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION
5.) "Venice Beach" - FINALIST, FOLK CATEGORY, JOHN LENNON SONGWRITING COMPETITION
6.) "Taking Bob Dylan" - GRAND PRIZE, INTERNATIONAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC AWARDS
7.) "Taking Bob Dylan" - BEST FEMALE ARTIST, INTERNATIONAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC AWARDS
8.) "The Underdogs" - SONG OF THE YEAR, OUT MUSIC AWARDS
9.) "Amen" - WINNER, GOSPEL CATEGORY, USA SONGWRITING CONTEST
10.) "She" - WINNER, POP CATEGORY, 2001, JOHN LENNON SONGWRITING CONTEST
11.) "She" - WINNER, POP CATEGORY, 2001, GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITING CONTEST
12.) "Everybody's Girl" (FULL RECORD) - WINNER, BEST DEBUT RECORDING - FEMALE, 2004, OUT MUSIC AWARDS
13.) "In Between Poses" - WINNER, 1st ANNUAL AWARDS, BEST FEMALE ARTIST, INTERNATIONAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC AWARDS
14.) "Taking Bob Dylan" - WINNER, NASHVILLE SONG & LYRIC CONTEST
1.) "All This Time" (By Jen Foster) is featured in the American Pie sequel American Pie: Beta House.
2.) "I Just Wanna Be Happy" (By Jen Foster/Kathy Scott) was recently featured in the ABC soap opera All My Children.
3.) "She" (By Jen Foster) is featured in the well-known film, Girlplay, directed by Lee Friedlander.
4.) "The One Who Got Away" (By Jen Foster/Glenn Rosenstein) is featured in Happenstance, an award-winning short film directed by Joyce Draganosky.
5.) "Seize the Moment" (By Jen Foster/Randy Bachman) is featured in the LOGO special, Suzanne Westenhoefer: A Bottom On Top.
6.) "Amen" (By Jen Foster) is featured in a Public Service Announcement on teen pregnancy by the organization One Milwaukee.
7.) "Without Michelangelo" (By Jen Foster/Kathy Scott) is featured in a television commercial for Chamberlain Nursing Schools.
8.) "Closer to Nowhere" (By Jen Foster) was recently featured in MTV's The Hills.
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