Jessica Paulin has renewed her musical journey in Loudoun’s wine country.
Photo by Kenneth Abell
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From Driveway Concerts to The Winery Circuit
Jessica Paulin Finds Her Voice BY JAN MERCKER
During the darkest days of the pandemic, Jessica Paulin sang in her driveway. The Lovettsville mom of four had spent the previous year working hard to get back to her first love—music—and wasn’t about to let it go. 10
“I couldn’t give it up, so I put a sign in my yard that said, ‘Live Music Today,’” Paulin recalled. Neighbors strolled by and set up chairs and listened while Paulin pulled favorites from her eclectic repertoire. In the year and a half since then, Paulin, who performs under the name Jes Jams, has stormed onto the local winery and brewery scene and built a regional following. For Paulin, her efforts to get back into her singing after setting it aside for more than a decade was accompanied by a hard-core weight loss journey. And both have required hard work and determination. “My journey started Aug. 18 of 2018. I
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