Violet Vonder Haar is a songwriter, artist, activist, teacher and leader from mid-Missouri. She has been using her music as a tool for healing, education, consciousness awakening, and social justice since the age of 9.
She is the founder of the all female rock orchestra, Jane Doe Revue, which has helped to raise over $30,000 for women’s healthcare and various organizations in Missouri. Through her work with JDR and her full time band, Violet and the Undercurrents, she has helped to elevate women’s voices, empowering them to stand stronger within their truest selves.
Violet has been a music educator for over 10 years, and uses her teaching as a way to heal and awaken the power within each of her students.
In 2019, she was nominated for the Missourian Progress in the Arts award, and in 2017, was the recipient of the Sarah Dwyer Special Appreciation Award by Women in the Arts at National Women’s Music Festival. In 2022, Violet, along with her partner, Phylshawn Johnson, received the Missourian Progress Awards in the Arts for their work with Compass Inc.
Currently, Violet is the programs director at Compass Inc., the Director of Music Ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia and private music teacher at Violet’s Songbird Studio.
