Diane jarvi biography

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“I Sing Your Evening Into Stars”

Diane Jarvi is a singer-songwriter and versatile performer of folk and world music. She has seven solo recordings and has been the recipient of a McKnight MacPhail Performing Fellowship and awarded a Minnesota Arts and Cultural Fund grant through the Minnesota State Arts Board.

She has performed and taught workshops across the U.S. and in Europe.

Under the name Diane Jarvenpa, she is the author of six books of poetry and has received The Midwest Independent Publishers Association Award. Her newest book, Shy Lands, from Blue Light Press, celebrates and grieves earth's wonders, those that are extinct and those that are still with us. She was awarded a grant to bring together her music and poetry to create the short video, The Way She Told Her Story.

She intertwines her creative disciplines with teaching as a teaching artist with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project MN.     &nb