Terry & Jenny Bio
Jenny spent her childhood years growing up in the W.A. wheat belt town of Wongan Hills.
The daughter of a railway man and a singing mother, Jenny moved to Perth with her family at age eleven and later learnt the piano and also started singing.
Jenny met Terry in Perth, married and they have four children.
Terry was born and raised on a farm at Kendenup in the South West of Western Australia and at fifteen moved to Perth to start an electrical apprenticeship.
Started playing the guitar at thirteen, joined a band at fifteen in Perth and played lead guitar and sang in bands for over twenty years.
Terry & Jenny have now sold their Electrical Contracting business to travel Australia and write and perform their music.
Terry & Jenny first performed together at the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival in 2002 and have been playing at Festivals and Country Music Venues since then.
Terry & Jenny's Award Winners
• West Australian Music Industry Awards 1998 - Blues Song of the Year
• Boyup Brook Country Music Festival 2001- Australian Song of the Year
• Queensland TSA Songwriters Awards 2001 - Traditional/Bush Ballad Song of the Year
• Victorian TSA Song writing Awards 2001 - Country & Gospel Song of the Year
• North Queensland Songwriters Awards 2001 - Traditional/Bushballad 1st & 2nd place
• George Crowley Memorial Award 2001 - Best Bushballad
• North Queensland Songwriters Awards 2001 - Song of the Year in all categories, Winner - Stan Coster Memorial Award.
• Boyup Brook Country Music Festival 2002 - Australian Song of the Year
• Boyup Brook Country Music Festival 2003 - Australian Song of the Year
• Tasmanian and NZ Song writing Awards 2005 - Best EP (Album less than 10 songs)
• Stan Coster Memorial Bush ballad Awards 2006 - Jenny Bennetts - Best Female Vocalist
• Tasmanian and NZ Song writing Awards 2006 - Best Bush Ballad
• Victorian TSA Songwriting Awards 2006 - Best bush Ballad
Terry & Jenny's Songs Recorded by Other Artists
• "Only When I Dream" Recorded by Elizabeth Lord. Released in 2002 at the Tamworth Music Festival.
• "Forty Years A Railway Man" recorded by Brad Lee in 2002 at LBS and released in January 2003.
• "First Winter Rains" recorded by Anita Ree in June 2003 at LBS Studios (Qld) and released on the 2003 Gympie Muster Compilation Album and a Bush Ballad compilation CD. Anita won Bushballad Star quest 2003 and Best New Talent (Bungendore Muster Awards) with "First Winter Rains"
• "Cold Wind" included on Anita's new CD released 2004
• "A Beer Named After You" Recorded by Graham Butterworth (Victoria) in 2005
• "Old Love New Love" recorded by Brian Letton 2005 (LBS Music)
• "Happy Birthday Mate" recorded by Ashley Cook 2006 (LBS Music)
The CDs can be purchased direct from us by going to our website for our details or by paypal
Contact Terry & Jenny
Email terryandjenny@terryandjenny.com.au
www.terryandjenny.com.au
Phone 08 9306 3025 or 0413 462 109
Address 22 Moondyne Trail Gnangara 6065 WA
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