Suzanne and Jim are full time professional entertainers with deep roots in the American Tradition of travelling minstrelsy. Since 1992 they have been full time travelers and their current house is a 30-foot class C motor home. Call it wheel estate, they do!

Over the years they have felt privileged to take their music into more than 30 states. Suzanne and Jim have appeared at a variety of public and private venues (see BUZZ for more information) from festivals, community events, libraries, historic theme parks, schools, house concerts, camps, churches, coffeehouses and activity centers just to mention a few.

Suzanne is rapidly gaining a national reputation as a song stylist. Her powerful rich voice is suited equally to sentimental ballads and cowgirl yodels. Suzanne has been a repeat first place winner at the prestigious Mount Airy, North Carolina Fiddlers Convention in Folk Songs category. Originally from Michigan, Suzanne spent many years in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina immersed in Old Time Music and clog dancing.

Suzanne is an accomplished percussionist, creating complex rhythms with her clogging and other rhythm implements such as spoons and bones, as well as playing flute and rhythm guitar.

For Jim Hale, music was a family event during his youth. Two of his aunts were well known in their small Kansas town for performing at community functions and he began accompanying them at an early age. Jim has adapted the difficult clawhammer method of playing the 5-string banjo to a variety of musical settings. Jim has not only been a winner of many banjo contests but his banjo playing has been featured in the Warner Brothers made for TV mini-series "The Wild West".

Suzanne and Jim have a recording available
Keep Smilin'

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