Janet Beazley, (banjo and lead/harmony singer,) is a true westerner. She spent her early years in Bakersfield, California, as well as Alaska and New Mexico. She is an accomplished banjo player, teacher, songwriter, and singer, and has taught banjo and music theory classes at the British Columbia Bluegrass Workshop, the American Banjo Camp, and the California Bluegrass Association music camp. She taught banjo at the August Heritage camp and at the Sorefingers camp in the UK in 2007 and was recently featured in Banjo Newsletter. Janet holds a doctorate in early music and teaches at the University of Southern California and at the University of California Riverside. She plays flute, recorder, viola da gamba and historical guitars, and her pennywhistle playing can be heard on several Backcountry recordings. Janet's solo album, 5 South appeared on the Bluegrass Unlimited chart for a year with a song by Chris, "Julia Belle." Janet's song "From Now On" was recorded by Sierra Hull on Rounder Records and was the most-played song on Sirius Bluegrass Radio for December 2008. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.