Kenny Klein

Kenny Klein (1955–2020) was an American folk and country musician and a writer. He was an elder and high priest in the Blue Star tradition of Wicca. Klein was a fiddler, playing styles ranging from British folk to jazz and swing. He was convicted in April 2017 of 20 counts of possession of child pornography. He died while serving his sentence in prison. In 1992, Klein and Tzipora divorced, and he began his solo music career, subsequently releasing several projects on Blackthorn Records. In 1998 he released the CD Muses, an album of all original music produced by Brewers' Witch Productions.

Neopagan activities Through his interest in British folk music, Klein discovered the Wiccan and Neopagan communities. While living in New York City, he joined Tzipora Katz's Blue Star coven and tradition of Wicca; he married Katz, who initiated him as a high priest in that tradition in 1983. From 1983 to 1992 Katz and Klein were largely responsible for transforming Blue Star from a local coven to a Wiccan tradition of its own.

In 1993, Klein authored The Flowering Rod: Men, Sex and Spirituality, a book on Wicca and men's mysteries.

Child pornography conviction On March 25, 2014, agents of the Louisiana State Police Special Victims Unit executed a search warrant at Klein's residence and seized a computer that contained 20 videos showing minor children engaged in sexually explicit activities.

During the course of his trial, Klein's stepdaughter testified that he sexually abused her and her half-brother, Klein's biological son, for years, and that he physically abused her mother during their marriage. The court testimony is public record.

Death On 13 July 2020 it was reported on the Wild Hunt and in various places on social media that on 11 July 2020, Klein died in prison of pancreatic cancer, in the B.B. "Sixty" Rayburn Correctional Facility in Washington Parish near Angie, Louisiana.

Written works Fairy Tale Rituals (May 2011), Llewellyn Worldwide Through The Faerie Glass (February 2010), Llewellyn Worldwide The Flowering Rod: Men, Sex and Spirituality (March 1993), Delphi Press , Lilith, Queen of the Desert (July 2010), includes the poem "Lilith" by Kenny Klein, Knickerbocker Circus Publishing, Girls I Knew When I Was Twenty (August 2004), Poetic Diversity. Legba in the French Market

Discography

Solo 1994: Gold of the Autumn – Blackthorn Records 1995: High Grows the Barley – Blackthorn Records 1998: Muses – Brewers' Witch Productions 2004: The Fairy Queen – Blackthorn Records 2005: Little Birds Of Desire – Blackthorn Records 2005: Barley Moon – Blackthorn Records 2007: Meet Me in the Shade of the Maple Tree – Blackthorn Records 2008: Oak & Ash – Blackthorn Records 2011: Ghosts of the Delta – Independent 2012: Black Cat Blues – Independent

With Tzipora Katz 1983: Worn Out Threads and Tire Treads (live album) – Kicking Mule Records 1983: Moon Hooves in the Sand – Blue Star Records (cassette) 1984: Songs of the Otherworld – Kenny & Tzipora (cassette) 1985: Wineskins, Tinkers, & Tears – Kicking Mule Records (LP) 1986: Dreamer's Web – Kenny & Tzipora (cassette) 1988: Fairy Queen – Kenny & Tzipora (cassette) 1989: Both Sides of the Water – Kenny & Tzipora (cassette) 1990: Branches – Kenny & Tzipora — Magical Audio Graphics Incomplete (cassette) 1990: Kenny & Tzipora: Live & Kickin' at A.C.E. – A.C.E. (cassette) 1990: Enchantress – Gypsy (Kenny & Tzipora guest artists) – White Light Pentacles (cassette; CD release 2001) 2004: Best of Pagan Song (compilation CD) – Serpentine Music Productions