It’s Saturday night around 11 o’clock. My band Green Eyed Lady is playing at a small club in our hometown of Fairfield County, CT. About 75 people are crazily crammed on the diminutive dance floor. A man I’ve never seen before, about ten feet back and a little to my right, is standing tall, hands clenched by his side, head thrown back with eyes closed, and he is swaying slightly and mouthing along to every word. He is lost somewhere in a memory recaptured and resurrected in t

Bridgeport’s Jenn Eckart knew Jeanette Chen from Grace Community Church in New Canaan. Eckart was the strategic operations director there. “I was sick for two years after a thyroid cancer diagnosis in 2011, and now I’m perfectly fine,” she says. “Jeanette was just getting started at the time with her website, and she researched my illness, creating the soups, healthy drinks and smoothies that helped combat the disease.” The lead singer and bass player for Green Eyed Lady, a

Jenn Eckart is the Green Eyed Lady. Having a great voice and playing the bass guitar in a rock band as a woman is relatively rare.​ Here is Jenn's top 10 list of comments made to her at clubs that reveal people's hidden assumptions regarding female musicians: 10. "I've never seen a female bass player before." 9. "Can I carry that bass for you? That's too heavy for you to be carrying around. You should let the bass player carry their own guitar." 8. "I am cliche