The Sizzling Strings

The Sizzling Strings are comprised of seven talented children, 12 stringed instruments, a piano, and a couple of very blessed parents and they offer a quick-paced, entertaining show. Fun and memorable oldies, rousing fiddling sprinkled with engaging gospel and classical songs, provide audiences with a refreshing musical buffet of popular pieces everyone will recognize. You will hear popular songs like Yankee Doodle, New York, New York, The Entertainer and The Sound Of Music plus great fiddle tunes like Orange Blossom Special, Cripple Creek, the Beaumont Rag and Millonaire's Hoedown. The children's incredible talent belies their youth as they fiddle and sing their way into the hearts of young and old alike.

The Jensen Family have been captivating audiences throughout the western United States as well as around their home town of Springville, Utah. They have been blessed to tour Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Closer to home, they have performed at family venues such as the Utah State Fair, Thanksgiving Point, Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Young Family Farms, Utah County Fair, Springville Museum of Art and The Provo Pioneer Day Extravaganza. Their proudest achievement to date is having been chosen to perform at the opening ceremonies of the American String Teachers Association convention last March.

About the Entertainers:

It all started when young Joshua, at age 5, used sticks in the back yard to help him imagine he was playing the violin. Not long after, he insisted that his mother, Sherri, find a violin teacher by handing her the phone and sitting down on the couch to wait for her to call one. She did, and thus began the blessed journey that pulled the rest of his brothers and sisters into the musical world in which they now live which includes 42 lessons per week among 7 children, practice for 2 hours a day individually and 1 to 6 hours a day as a group. The children's current ages are Joshua 14, Jossalyn 13, Ty 11, Kenna 10, Tennyson 8, Caleb 4, and Kassandra who is 3 years old and has just learned her first song on the Viola . Sherri, who is a masterful keyboardist, once hoped she would be blessed with pianists like herself, but not long after Joshua started violin lessons the rest took up various string instruments and the rest is history. Let The Sizzling Strings take you back to "the good 0l' times" while brightening your outlook on the future.