Julie Elkins
Julie Elkins is a banjo player, guitarist, singer, and teacher who grew up in Bozeman, Montana, in a family of bluegrass musicians and singers from eastern Kentucky. She started playing banjo at seven. She played with the North Carolina band New Vintage and in 1999 she became a founding member of Kane's River, first called Deep River, which released its debut album in 2000. She has also played with Wheel Hoss, the John Lowell Band, and Diamond Creek. She was one of the musicians on Back to the Well by the Daughters of Bluegrass, produced by Lorraine Jordan and Dale Perry, which won IBMA's Recorded Event of the Year in 2006. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she teaches banjo, guitar, and voice.
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- No. 2 January-March 1995