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Tampa Duo To Entertain At Plant City Library

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By DAVE NICHOLSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 18, 2008

PLANT CITY The Tampa musical duo Juniper will entertain at a Jan. 15 meeting of the Friends of Bruton Memorial Library.

Juniper – with Frances Pisacane playing violin and Jasmine Hart on the guitar - blends traditional Celtic, alternative folk and Americana music. The women met at a dinner party in 1999 and formed the duo shortly thereafter, Hart said.

Their travels include an annual summer tour of the Appalachians, Hart said. Juniper was recently nominated for its third album of the year from Asheville, N.C. area radio station WNCW for the duo's "Live from the Appalachians," Hart said.

This will be the duo's first performance in Plant City.

The Friends of the Library group holds three general membership meetings a year and always includes entertainment, organization spokeswoman Bambi Mullinax said. The meetings are a chance for the public to learn about the Friends organization and its support for the library, Mullinax said.

There is no charge for the performance at the library, 302 W. McLendon St., Plant City.
For information, call the library at (813) 757-9215.

Juniper's Web site is at www.junipertrio.com.

Pisacane first became interested in fiddling as a kid attending folk and bluegrass festivals in the Washington, D.C. area. After graduating from Northwestern University's School of Music she moved to Tampa, and she teaches strings at a private school in Land O" Lakes.

Hart, a native of the Tampa Bay area, has been playing guitar and writing songs since she was a little girl in St. Petersburg. The daughter of a Big Band violinist, she has recently been concentrating on writing new music with Juniper.

The duo has a repertoire of 500 to 600 songs and is a favorite of children, who frequently get up and dance around during Juniper's performances, Hart said.

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