Stella & Jane with Jeff Foster

Eclectic Alternative Country Music

Stream Some Jams

You're Still On My Mind
Mockingbird
The Breakdown
How Does It Feel

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Stella & Jane has been selected as a "Runner Up" in the December 2005 and October 2007 rounds of the Song of the Year song and lyric competition. Song of the Year receives entries from all over the world and only the top entries achieve Runner Up status.
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Songwriter's Showcase

Every Monday night at The Players Pub, you can walk in and see 4 songwriters sitting side by side, sharing their songs & the stories behind them. STELLA & JANE along with Dave McConnel (from the Lopers) and Mark Haggarty (from Fire) championed the effort to bring a 'Nashville-style' writers night back home to Bloomington. With some hailing from as far away as Toronto, DIFFERENT WRITERS are featured every week from 8-10pm. There is never a cover charge for this show. For more information, check out their MySpace page.

Stella & Jane's musical odyssey began in 2005, when Bloomington, Indiana singer-songwriters Stella Suzette Weakley and Bobbie Jane Lancaster joined forces to craft songs, perform... and generally have a good time.

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Admiring the work of Lucinda Williams, Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent, Nickel Creek and other neo-traditional country music acts, the ladies compose songs ranging from the quirky to the profound, keeping their instrumentation acoustic and the vocals well-knit.

Jeff Foster in concert, 2006
In September, 2007, Stella & Jane teamed up with Jeff Foster. A multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and writer, Jeff comes with a long list of accomplishments, chief among these being his eclectic skills on guitar. Adept at any style from classical, flamenco and jazz to bluegrass, country, blues and rock, Jeff adds a strong instrumental edge to the proceedings (electric and classic guitars, guitar-synth and banjo), and his own original songs to the set list.

Previously, Weakley and Lancaster were best known in Bloomington as members of other bands. Guitarist, pianist and mandolin player Weakley was a longtime member of '70s-style rock band The Lost Boys, and Lancaster fronted the popular blues group Code Blue.

Their new venture is all-original, acoustic and raw, with Weakley harmonizing with Lancaster's booming voice. Says Jane, "Part of the spirit of the music is that it's stripped down, bare bones … It's got kind of an old spirit to it, an old soul".

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When they first joined forces as a songwriting team, the women were overwhelmed by ideas. Songs were coming so fast they barely had time to write them down. The ladies (whose real names are Stella Suzette Weakley and Bobbie Jane Lancaster) describe themselves as alt-rock with a country-folk edge. Americana fits the bill, they say, and visiting Nashville Tennessee was a way to gauge those up-and-coming in that scene. With an ear toward enhancing their instrumental sound, a 2006 collaboration with talented singer-songwriter and fiddler Andrea Fiedler resulted in Stella & Jane's first CD project, Myths and Dreams.

Stella & Jane are currently in the studio recording their next CD, featuring new material from all three writers. Stay tuned!

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