Discipline: Music Composition

Adrienne Jones

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Willimantic, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008

Adrienne Jones is a singer-songwriter from Connecticut who toured and records internationally with her trio, Mad Agnes, for ten years. She has released four solo CDs. Jones worked on a collection of songs called Finding Home, centered around the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 in which her forbears took part.

Portrait by Christopher T. Saunders

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Adrienne Jones worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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