Jenee Fleenor

Jenee Fleenor
BornSpringdale, Arkansas, U.S.[1]
GenresBluegrass
Country
Neotraditional country
Occupations
  • Musician
  • songwriter
  • singer
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • Fiddle
  • Mandolin
  • Acoustic guitar
Years active2001-present

Jenee Fleenor is an American musician. A singer-songwriter, she plays the fiddle, mandolin and acoustic guitar and has performed with various musicians and bands. In 2019, she became the first woman to be nominated and to win the Country Music Association's Musician of the Year and the first fiddle player to win the award in over 20 years.[2] She has subsequently won the award a further four consecutive times. Fleenor is also a two-time winner of the Specialty Instruments Player of the Year award at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

Fleenor has performed with artists including Jon Pardi, Blake Shelton, Steven Tyler, Terri Clark, Martina McBride, Cody Johnson, and Rascal Flatts. She has written songs for many of the same musicians, as well as Dolly Parton, Gretchen Wilson, Kathy Mattea, Montgomery Gentry, Del McCoury and Gord Bamford.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference GrandOleOpryBio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Hight, Jewly. "The Woman Leading The Fiddle Revival In Country Music". NPR.org. Retrieved 31 December 2019.