Kenny Klein

Kenny Klein (born 1955, New York City) is an American folk and country musician and a published author. He is an elder and a High Priest in the Blue Star tradition of Wicca. Klein is a fiddler, and plays styles ranging from British folk to jazz and swing.

In April 2017, Klein was convicted of 20 counts of possession of child pornography.

Klein and his then-wife performed as a duo called Kenny and Tzipora in the mid-1980s, and they recorded several projects on Kicking Mule Records, including the album Wineskins, Tinkers, & Tears in 1985. Together with their children they traveled around the US, performing at Pagan festivals, Renaissance fairs, and folk music venues. In 1992, Kenny and Tzipora divorced, and Kenny 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.

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. Between 1983 and 1992 Katz and Klein were largely responsible for transforming Blue Star from a local coven to a Wiccan tradition of its own. Touring the country during that period performing music, Kenny and Tzipora continued to teach Blue Star Wicca, initiating people and founding covens, and teaching largely via recording and distributing lessons on cassette tapes.

In 1992, after separating from Tzipora, he established the Rose and Antler coven of Blue Star. He is the author of The Flowering Rod: Men, Sex and Spirituality, a book on Wicca and Men's Mysteries.

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. On April 6, 2017, following a three-day trial, a jury in New Orleans, Louisiana, convicted Klein on 20 counts of possessing child pornography. Klein was convicted of one count of pornography involving a juvenile under age 13 and 19 counts of possession with intent to distribute pornography involving juveniles under age 17. Sentencing is set for 20 April.

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