Kenny Klein

Kenny Klein (born 1955, New York City) is an American Celtic, folk and country musician, a published author, playwright, actor and poet, and an elder and a High Priest in the Blue Star tradition of Wicca. Klein is a noted fiddler, and plays styles ranging from Irish and British to jazz and swing.

Career
In the mid-1980s Kenny and Tzipora, as they were known, recorded several projects on Kicking Mule Records, including the album Wineskins, Tinkers, & Tears in 1985. Together with their children they traveled around the US, performing at Pagan festivals, Renaissance fairs, and folk music venues.

Klein currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana relocating there after many years of living in Los Angeles, California. In Los Angeles he worked with Enrichment Works, a non-profit organization that brings performance art to public schools in the Los Angeles area. He originated the role of Ike in Gold Rush Honeymoon for Enrichment Works, and also created the original one-man show, PIRATES!, for the organization. Also in Los Angeles Klein worked with Celtic band Odd's Bodkin. Odd's Bodkin has toured extensively, and has played at such venues as the Southern California Renaissance Faire, Northern California Renaissance Faire, Bristol Renaissance Faire, the Festival]], and the Wisteria Cornstalk Festival.

A noted fiddler, Kenny has done a good deal of studio recording on various musical projects. He has written and produced eight musical albums. He has also developed his career as an author, with four titles available. He is currently writing books on the subject of Faerie Lore and Grimms Fairy Tales for Llewellyn Worldwide. Klein's newest title is Fairy Tale Rituals.

Neopagan activities
Through his interest in British music, Klein discovered the Wiccan and Neopagan communities. He learned a great deal about traditional Scottish Witchcraft from New York merchant Eileen Campbell Gordon, and then joined the Blue Star coven and tradition of Wicca, becoming a High Priest within that tradition in 1983. He helped steer the Tradition towards a more traditional British form, discarding Alexandrian and ceremonial rituals and replacing them with British folkloric Craft practices, including the 8 Paths of Power, the 7 Tenets of Faith, and the Drawing Down of the Moon and Sun. Between 1983 and 1992 he and his wife, High Priestess Tzipora Klein (née Katz) were largely responsible for transforming Blue Star from a local coven to a Wiccan tradition of its own. Touring the country during that period performing music, Kenny and Tzipora continued to teach Blue Star Wicca, initiating many people and founding many covens, at the same time recording and distributing lessons on cassette tapes, and Klein has continued to teach Traditional Wicca since then. In 1992, after separating from Tzipora, he established the Rose and Antler coven of Blue Star, through which he continued to practice and teach. In 2010 he moved to New Orleans and in 2011 established a new coven, Iron and Cypress. He is the author of The Flowering Rod: Men, Sex and Spirituality, a book on Wicca and Men's Mysteries.

Solo

 * 1994 - Gold of the Autumn - Blackthorn Records
 * 1995 - High Grows the Barley - Blackthorn Records
 * 1998 - Muses - Brewers' Witch Productions
 * 2004 - The Fairy Queen (Kenny Klein & Lori Watley) - Blackthorn Records
 * 2005 - Little Birds Of Desire - Blackthorn Records
 * 2005 - Barley Moon - Blackthorn Records
 * 2007 - Meet Me In The Shade Of The Maple Tree - Blackthorn Records
 * 2008 - Oak & Ash - Blackthorn Records
 * 2011 - Ghosts Of The Delta - Independent
 * 2012 - Black Cat Blues - Independent

With Tzipora Katz

 * ???? - Both Sides of the Water
 * 1983 - Worn Out Threads and Tire Treads (Live Album) - Kicking Mule Records
 * 1983 - Moon Hooves in the Sand - Blue Star Records (Cassette)
 * 1985 - Wineskins, Tinkers, & Tears - Kicking Mule Records (LP)
 * 1989 - Kenny & Tzipora: Live & Kickin' at A.C.E. - A.C.E. (Cassette)
 * 1990 - Enchantress - Gypsy (Kenny & Tzipora guest artists) - White Light Pentacles (Cassette) (CD release 2001)
 * 2004 - Best of Pagan Song (compilation CD) - Serpentine Music Productions