Jeanie Murphy—Old-Time Banjo!

Jeanie Murphy plays clawhammer and old-time picking style banjo. She also messes around with Cajun and old time fiddling and some guitar. She likes to sing the good old songs.

She performs:

• as The Coattail Riders with Forrest Newton—an old-time duo singing great old songs.
• as Murphy & Marckx with her husband, violin maker Scott Marckx, in various combinations for square and contra dances
• solo

Jeanie loves to teach banjo, having tutored at the Festival of Fiddle Tunes for many years and most recently at the Dusty Strings Clawhammer Workshop with Bob Carlin and Cathy Fink. She can give a special workshop on Wade Ward, Hobart Smith, or drop thumb, and she is often available for private lessons should you be in Port Townsend. Email her for more information at: jeanmurphy "at" olympus "dot" net

Jeanie's albums include:

• The Time's Been Sweet: Critically acclaimed! Read reviews and listen to cuts at Northwest Music or at CD Baby !
• Carthy Sisco: Rugged Road: Tunes from old-time fiddler Carthy Sisco backed by Jeanie on banjo, Jim Ketterman on guitar. Carthy has a rhythmic bow shuffle that is completely infectious. On Voyager Records

You can hear her version of "Johnny Lover's Gone" at Banjo Newsletter's MP3 site. Jeanie was profiled in the copy of Banjo Newsletter in a kind article by John Adams, a great player in Salem, OR.

Currently, Jeanie is working on a CD of solo banjo tunes, most of them her own.

Obviously, she's just getting started on this site!

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