About Jennifer Bruce
Jennifer Bruce won her first talent contest at the tender age of 8 years old. At age eleven, Jennifer performed as a vocalist in the group Main Street Magic. The group played various USO shows, private events as well as an entire summer at Disneyland.
Jennifer sang with her Mom and Dad in a family band, performed with a variety of bands, and sang at many events and shows in California before moving to Nashville to pursue her music career.
In 2003 Jennifer Bruce became a featured vocalist for Steve Hall and the Shotgun Red Show.
A mutual friend, Delores Lafollet of Minnesota, gave Steve Hall Jennifer’s CD to listen to. As soon as he heard it, he picked up the phone to call Jennifer and asked her to do the benefit concert for Camp Confidence in Minnesota with him. Steve would always tell everyone, “She flew out from California on her own dime and did this benefit show. She brought her Mom and Dad and her Mom sang harmony with her.” Jennifer ended up closing the show and received a standing ovation. He asked her a few months later if she wanted to come sing at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop Theater in Nashville with him, and the rest is history.
She became a permanent member of the Shotgun Red Band. Jennifer’s ability to do vocal impressions of country greats and other genres made her a natural fit with his country comedy variety show and was featured in every show along with Roger Francis, his longtime impressionist, vocalist, and guitar player. Jennifer traveled all over the country with Steve’s show and performed aboard the General Jackson Showboat in Nashville, TN.
Over the years, Jennifer assisted Steve as a road manager and in addition to performing on every show, she managed the Shotgun Red Variety Show for RFDTV. The Shotgun Red band members and booking agents would always say, “Jennifer was the glue”.
You can read and see more on Jennifer’s time with Steve Hall and Shotgun Red on Shotgunred.com
The Shotgun Red Variety Show has a new home on CanyonStar.tv
This channel premiers in Fall 2022. Look for it on your Roku device.
Watch full episodes with Jennifer and all of the Shotgun Red Band on every show.
Jennifer can now add author to her list of accomplishments. Since 2019 Jennifer co-authored two cookbooks. The Best of Cooking with Shotgun Red Volume One and Two.
Is this the best cooking show? If it ain’t, I ought to be!
Steve Hall and Miss Sheila created a cooking show on YouTube in 2014 called Cooking with Shotgun Red. After Steve Hall passed away, Miss Sheila was encouraged by many fans to keep the Cooking with Shotgun Red shows going, she couldn’t think of a better person than Jennifer to help and be her new sidekick.
Since joining Miss Sheila on Cooking with Shotgun Red, the channel has continued to grow and has gained many new fans.
Jennifer Bruce enjoys performing many styles of music. Over the years she has performed everything from Country, Big Band, Blues, Jazz and more. In 2014 she and some amazing Nashville musicians started a group called DejaNu. They arranged classic pop hits into a jazzy arrangements and performed at various clubs, theaters and festivals. The group made two albums together. You can get Jennifer Bruce and DejaNu’s CD on the Music Store page.
She performed 2 sold out shows with the longest running Big Band in Nashville “The Establishment” at the Franklin Theater in 2019. You can watch some of Jennifer’s performances on her YouTube Channel.
