Brittney JoLee Huston

Dulcimer player and singer from

Mechanicsburg, IL.

A Short Biography!

Brittney has been playing the mountain dulcimer since the age of 6. She is a multi talented, enthusiastic, 15 year old, instrumentalist, and recording artist. Her focus is on the lap dulcimer, and claw hammer banjo. She has a style that does amaze and delighted audiences. With a rhythm and melody that does match the fiddle, up to speed, note for note. This causes a timeless mountain sound to her repertoire. Brittney JoLee has performed with a great many musical legends and has a keen ear for music. Currently she performs solo, as a duo with Grandpa Jimmy Cary or in a group with the Springfield Dulcimer Strings. At times with Mike’s Dulci Kids, a group of young musicians tutored by Mike Anderson from Jacksonville Illinois.

Her affiliations include the Springfield & Central Illinois Film Commission, one of Mike Anderson’s Dulcimer Kids, and the Dulcimer Strings of Springfield, IL. Her mentor list is quite long, and includes instructors from all over the United States & Canada. These past 5 years Brittney Jo Lee was also mentored by musical artists at WCU Mountain Dulcimer Week, and at Cosby Dulcimer & Harp Convention at Mountains MusiCrafts in Cosby, Tennessee. Her primary instructors have been Mike Anderson on the dulcimer and Dale Evans on claw hammer banjo

Some of Her venues to play music in 2006 included New Salem State Park in Illinois, Western Carolina University at Cullowee North Carolina, Dickson Mounds State Park in Illinois, the Cosby Dulcimer & Harp Convention at Mountains MusiCrafts in Cosby, Tennessee, Ham Radio Festivals, Hospitals and Her High School in Rochester Illinois. She was even asked to play on the Cosby Tennessee stage while visiting at Lee Shilling’s home while traveling to another venue. That evening Brittney felt that it was a great honor for her to play and sing for the crowd that showed to hear mountain music. Especially on the Cosby stage in the mountains of Tennessee.

Music selections she chooses are Traditional, Civil War, Celtic and Gospel selections that are timeless expressions of human creativity. She is deeply commitment to preserving the old music and stories told in the mountains and plains of these United States.

Brittney JoLee Huston

Prairieland Ventures Co. * See you at Spoon River!

4020 Irwin Bridge Rd.

Cantrall, Illinois 62625

217-652-2540

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