Judith Edelman
Judith Edelman is a bluegrass singer, songwriter, and guitarist who leads the Judith Edelman Band. She was born in Manhattan and grew up on New York's Upper East Side, where she studied classical piano, and later attended Swarthmore College. She worked in international development in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kenya and Zimbabwe before returning to San Francisco, where she began studying bluegrass guitar. She toured the bluegrass circuit in the mid-1990s with Coyote Ridge and Ryestraw. Producer Bill VornDick recorded her debut album, Perfect World, and its 1998 follow-up, and she produced a later album herself in Nashville.