Born in Virginia and raised in New Jersey, Nora Jane Struthers began playing as a preteen,
attending festivals and fiddlers’ conventions around the south with her banjo-playing
father. After graduating from NYU, she taught high school English in Brooklyn and put
her music career on the back burner. But a visit to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in
the early 2000s changed that. Struthers moved to Nashville and won the 2008 Telluride
competition with her first solo-fronted group, the Bootleggers. Today, backed by her band
The Party Line, Struthers mixes pedal steel with robust guitar riffs and her own fearless
voice.