Jennifer Peterson and Creekstone
Jennifer Peterson & Creekstone is a vibrant trio from Taos, New
Mexico whose music can best be described as Americana with influences of
blues, bluegrass, pop and country.
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Front-woman, Jennifer Peterson has developed a loyal following of
listeners who enjoy her honesty and ability to connect with her
audience. Her live performance is powerful with bold lyrics, contagious
melodies, and a song-writing style that upholds a tradition of powerful
women in music. She has opened for Gretchen Wilson and Kenny Rogers and
performed at the legendary Birchmere (Alexandria, VA), Park West
(Chicago, IL), the Chicago Cultural Center, The Joint/Hard Rock Casino
(Las Vegas, NV), Summerfest - "The World's Largest Music Festival"
(Milwaukee, WI), and two of the largest country music festivals, Country
USA (Oshkosh, WI) & Countryfest (Cadott, WI).
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Most recently, Jennifer was featured in the book, "Their Love of
Music" by photographer Steve Azzato, along-side 116 other musicians
including Aaron Neville, Buddy Guy, Dave Brubeck, Nicholas Tremulis,
Shawn Colvin, Steve Miller, Tift Merritt and many others. (Quiet Light
Publishing, November 2010)
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Guitarist, Randy Morris was born into a family with a long history
of musicians including a great-uncle (Charlie Morris) who played with
jazz legend, Glenn Miller, during the swing era. Randy has been known as
an accomplished left-handed drummer for most of his life. In the 90's
his band toured as the opening act for Counting Crows and Live playing
at many of the countries largest arenas.
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Eventually, Randy became more interested in song-writing and picked
up a guitar as a mechanism to assist him. He has become so adept on
guitar, and now banjo, that many people are surprised to hear that he
was originally a drummer.
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Randy and Jennifer began writing and recording together. Their songs
have received many accolades including songs being chosen by the "Song
of the Year" songwriting contest as a 2009 Runner-Up for "Home" and as a
2010 Semi-Finalist for "Taking Me Back to You".
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