Alison Jenkins

Allison Jenkins is no stranger to the music scene in Jackson. She studied opera performance at Millsaps College, and continued her studies at Boston Conservatory. However, fate had a different direction and Alley began writing and performing her own music. With Matthew Magee, she formed the band Wooden Finger, and collaborated on the album "All this time, still we're lost” as well as their second album, “Take And See And Do What You Want”.  In May 2007, Allison performed with Swing de Paris in the Ballet Mississippi Spring Performance featuring a new ballet titled Django, joining the band and providing a new twist and energy to the gypsy jazz music.  Allison has written lyrics to many of the Django Reinhardt songs such as Blue Drag andMelodie Au Crépuscule (Love’s Melody) while performing the many American standard tunes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald in the Django style.
Allison has also performed in many theatrical productions of The Dialogue of the Carmelites, Creation, Macbeth, at Millsaps College; Through The Looking Glass with the Fondren Players;  My Fair Lady, The Marriage of Figaro and Carmen with the Mississippi Opera and Pelleas and Melisandeand Manon while in Boston.

Allison teaches voice and piano and is working on writing and illustrating her first book.