Artists:Jennifer Armstrong
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I am both a musician and a storyteller and interweave songs,tunes and tales into all my programs.
I believe in audience participation and community celebrations and think of myself as a creative facilitator as well as a performer. I tell traditional and personal stories from my Celtic-American heritage and play the Scottish bagpipe, fiddle, banjo and guitar.
I began my storytelling and instrument playing at a young age. When I was two-and-a-half I told my first story, my version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. When I was five, my sister and I made bagpipes out of balloons and tinker toys but it wasn't until I was thirteen that I officially began learning to pipe. I attended Donald Lindsay's Invermark College of Piping in upstate New York for a number of summers during my teens. Since then I've opened festivals, piped at funerals, weddings, birthday parties and graduations, given lessons to beginners and continued to attend bagpipe summer schools whenever I can.
I fell in love with the fiddle, and with the fiddle player, when I was eight. Michael Gorman, from county Sligo Ireland, was eighty years old when he was a house guest of my parents for two weeks, and started me on my fiddler's path.
I began giving fiddle lessons at age thirteen and in my twenties took the Suzuki Book 1a teachers training. I quickly realized fiddling and violin training are worlds apart from the very beginning so didn't continue with Suzuki Teacher Training. However, I've taught fiddle and folk dancing as an enrichment teacher at many Suzuki Institutes across the country since 1986, including Institutes in IL, UT, PA, NH, MA, VA, KS and CO.
I attended Berea College in Kentucky from 1975 to 1977 and played fiddle for the Berea College Country Dancers.
I've given fiddle workshops and singing games/dancing workshops at Berea Christmas School, John C. Campbell Folk School, Pinewoods, Augusta Heritage Arts Workshops and Buffalo Gap Family Camp.
I moved with my daughters (Georgia Rose and Suzannah Park) from Swannanoa, NC back to Chicago in 1984. I worked for Urban Gateways (an Arts in Education agency) for about five years and then became my own booking agent.
My daughters and I moved to Jamaica Plain, MA in 1997 and then in the Summer of 2000 I moved to Belfast, Maine where I plan to roost for a long time!
• Do you really play the bagpipe? Yes, I do.
• Do you travel internationally? Yes. I've performed in Canada and in Hong Kong.
• Have you done shows in every state in the USA? No. I've performed in 33 of the 50 states.
• How long have you made music and told stories for a living? I began performing professionally when I was 19, back in 1977.
• How many instruments do you play and how old were you when you started? I play seven instruments. I started lap dulcimer when I was five, fiddle when I was eight, guitar when I was ten, banjo when I was twelve, bagpipe when I was thirteen, bowed psaltery when I was fifteen and I'm learning Irish harp now at age forty-seven.
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| Jennifer Armstrong on MySpace |
| Jennifer Armstrong on Wikipedia |
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Lament For The Children | At The Table | 1:42 | 5 |  1 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Twinkling A, B, C's | I Can Be Me | 2:18 | 7 |  0 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Children / Folk | Simple Gifts II | At The Table | 2:41 | 4 | 0 votes |
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| Total Time | 6:41 |
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Artist name is|Jennifer Armstrong Last played| more than 1 week ago ---------------------------------------- Show name| Songs by Jennifer Armstrong Length| 15 minutes Order by| random Limit| 3 songs ----------------------------------------
Stats
- Spotlighted: Monday, November 1st 2004
- Songs on WWR: 28
- Total plays: 247
- Total requests: 49
- Total listens: 4833
- CDBaby referrals: 4
- CDBaby sales: At The Table (Sold 2 copies)
Dancing in the Circle (Sold 1 copies)
I Can Be Me (Sold 1 copies)
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