Ars Nova Workshop presents the acclaimed, eclectic violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman with her latest project, All Species Parade, at Solar Myth on Wednesday, April 9.

Jenny Scheinman is an acclaimed violinist and composer who spent 13 years on the NYC downtown music scene, leading her own bands as well as working alongside artists ranging from Jason Moran to Brian Blade, Lucinda Williams to Lou Reed, among numerous others. The New York Times praised her “distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues.” Upon moving back to the Pacific Northwest, Scheinman was reawakened to the extraordinary biodiversity of the region where she was raised – “The Lost Coast,” a stretch of mudslide- and earthquake-prone coastline cut off from the main thoroughfares. This would ultimately inspire Scheinman to write All Species Parade, an epic and sprawling double album with an A-list ensemble. At Solar Myth she’ll be joined by guitarist Steve Cardenas, pianist Carmen Staaf, bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen to explore this new music that strives to capture, in Scheinman’s words, “a charged relationship to nature, a feeling of being part of something bigger than ourselves, powerful, and fragile, and constantly changing.”