LJOBA JENČE is a singer, storyteller and collector of Slovene oral folk tradition, who lives and works as a free-lance artist on the shores of the intermittent Cerknica Lake. She sings and tells stories to children and adults, conducts workshops on folk singing and the art of story-telling in Slovenia and abroad, explores new dimensions of the etheric tone and healing with the voice. She has recorded several CDs, among which two self-financed releases stand out: A Folk Song is Singing in Me (1992) and The Springs of Heart, Slovene Folk Songs to Celebrate Festivities of the Year (2001). The Lepote modrosti CD is dedicated to Dalai Lama’s first visit to Slovenia in 2002 on which the prayer of the Gyuto Tibetan monks and Ljoba’s singing of old Slovenian prayer songs intertwine. She sang her authorial songs for a film on Cerknica Lake. She sang at the opening of the exhibition of the millennium – The Birth Certificate of Slovene Culture, the presentation of Freising manuscripts at the National and University Library in Ljubljana. In a TV recital entitled Pojoči kamenčki directed by Jasna Hribernik, she presented her relation to folk songs in the region. In December 2009, she celebrated the 20th anniversary of her first public concert in the role of artistic director of a concert by KD Folk Slovenija entitled Ljubljanca, Ljubljanca, oh kaj se godi.
