Janet Beazley
Janet Beazley is a banjo player, singer, producer, and early music performer from Bakersfield, California, who lives in San Juan Capistrano. She played with the Southern California band Copperline alongside Eric Uglum. She plays banjo and sings in Chris Stuart & Backcountry, and she also performs as a duo with Stuart. Her debut solo album, 5 South (2005), spent eight months on the Bluegrass Unlimited National Survey chart. She is a prolific teaching having taught banjo, harmony singing, music theory, and songwriting at camps in multiple countries. She holds a doctorate in early music performance from the University of Southern California. She has taught early music at UC Riverside, UC Irvine, and USC's Thornton School of Music, and at UC Riverside she directs both the Collegium Musicum and the Bluegrass Ensemble. She also manages New Expression Music in San Diego.
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- No. 2 January-March 1995