With a crystalline voice that has been characterized as “somewhere between Aimee Mann and Bonnie Raitt,” songwriter Jenny Van West released her first album Something Real in 2015 and the EP Honey & Hive in 2016, both produced by Ed DesJardins in Readfield. Winner of the 2015 Maine Songwriters Association songwriting contest, she will be releasing her new album of original songs _Happiness to Burn_, produced by internationally-acclaimed singer-songwriter Shane Alexander in Los Angeles, in November 2017.