Deb Justice
Teaches at Meadowood: Sat
Teaches off-site: Weekday and Sat evenings
Deb Justice began playing folk music over 25 years ago. After childhood piano, Deborah discovered the hammered dulcimer, which she now teaches in private lessons and at regional festivals. While performing Irish, Eastern European, Arabic, and klezmer musics at the PA Renaissance Faire, Deborah learned to play guitar and within a few years quicky discovered old-time music. When she moved to Syracuse, NY in 2013, she got started on clawhammer banjo. Deborah has degrees in ethnomusicology (BA through PhD), throws axes as a hobby. She traces her Scots-Irish roots right back to Clan Menzies in the Highlands!
Guitarist with the Northside String Band and banjo player and hammered dulcimer player with fiddler David Deacon (Ithica, NY), she's played in venues that include Kilpatrick’s Irish Pub -Wintersquabee at Stone Cat Cafe -The Scalehouse - Barry Family Cellars - Fleur de Lis Brew Works- Americana Vineyards - Monks on the Commons - MapleFest at WellSpring Forest Farm -Finger Lakes Celtic Festival - Allegheny Celtic Fest - Rochester Contra Dance - Binghamton Porchfest - Dundee Scottish Festival - FLX Oktoberfest - Ithaca Porchfest - Trumansburg Conservatory Contra Dance - Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival - Contra Dance at Slow Lane - Cornell Elves Blanket Bee - Tioga County Contra Dance - Celtic Christmas at The Heart Light Center - Danby Town Hall Concert Series - Music and Meditation at the Tatkon Center, Cornell University - Hector Wine Company, Hector, NY - Six Mile Creek Winery - Sheldrake Point Winery - Bottomless Brewing.
Whether you've got a graduate degree in some other instrument, or can't read a lick of musical notation, she can help you learn banjo, guitar, or hammered dulcimer... or all three!
She enjoys working with beginners and advanced players, and has something to offer no matter where you are on your musical journey. We are so glad to offer her talents to you!