Jenny O’Connor was performing at the Texas Renaissance Festival in 2007 when a patron filmed a short clip of her performing the Theme from the Last of the Mohicans and posted it to YouTube with the title “The Hot Violinist”. At that time Jenny was focused on a live performing career with two nationally touring bands E Muzeki and Circa Paleo and didn’t find out about the online video, or the fact that it had gone viral surpassing 1 million views, for several years. A comedian friend of hers found the video and purchased www.thehotviolinist.com as a joke. Her channel began with a few videos about ornamentation for the Last of the Mohicans and has expanded to help hundreds of adult learners pick up the violin later in life. Visit TheHotViolinist on YouTube.
