Jeanie's home page photo.Jeanie Fitchen

 Winner of the 2001 Florida Folk Heritage Award

 There are Roads lined with silver,
Roads lined with gold,
Roads that leave you hungry,
Thirsty and cold,
There are roads that lead to happiness,
Roads to despair,
Take a look around you...they're everywhere.

 ...Title cut from Grammy Nominated ROADS

Roads.mp3

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Hello Everyone,

I have a new CD!!! Available only here, a compilation of 15 previously-recorded songs from the early years, including Baja.mp3, Seminole, Don't Come Bearing Flowers.mp3, Eutrophic on Lake Okeechobee,Wild Mountain Thyme.mp3 , Welcome Home, The River of my Home, Miss Louise, Earthquake!, I Wish I Could Be Back Home Again, Juncalito By The Sea, The Suwannee Flows Deep in Our Heart, Anthem to the Morning, The Ballad of the Florida Alligator and I'm Florida, Need I Say More?

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Jeanie Fitchen
2456 Pacer Lane
Cocoa, Florida 32926-2606

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Please join a "Creative" Challenge to Musicians, Songwriters, Artists, Authors and Poets. Communicate the negative impact of overpopulation and wasteful consumption on our life-support system and motivate humanity toward positive change. Listen to Changes in the Wind:

How many people is too many, as we reach 6 billion strong. Pull your head up from the sand, the choice is in the hand of every woman, child and man.

There is no graver premonition, than a world that's run out of room. 12 years more uncontrolled would add a billion to the fold and greater burden upon the land.

The world will see discord, drought and famine, as her natural resources disappear. And to feed the human masses, the earth's fulfillment passes to a wasteland, wild of sand.

 

In the meantime...from music writing to novel writing,

I am currently working on a new manuscript, an adult novel called gwaD Story. Can anyone guess what it is about? I would bet NOT! More later about this!

I've have completed 2 young-adult novels, Will God Get His Payback? and Fire on the Mountain, a multicultural picture book called Chocolate Pudding! and a multigenerational picture book entitled Her Heart is in Her Hands: a Quilting Story, based upon my song of the same title!

I have also just completed a middle-grade fantasy-adventure novel based on the mythical Phoenix Bird. It's called The Unearthly Adventures of Phoenix Rising Glorious...

Named for the legendary bird of mythology, because of her brilliant red hair and propensity for flight, 10-year-old Phoenix Rising Glorious triumphs above the disparaging and often comedic antics of her small-minded neighbors, metamorphosing into a magnificent bird with brilliant plumage.

A striking young girl, an astonishing firebird--one body, one mind.

A plane crash? An extraordinary sojourn in another world?--one body, one mind.

 

If you'd like to reach me while I am on the road or at home, please use my alternate email address below. It's faster and works a lot better than Jeanie@JFitchen.com because there is no spam!

email: thefitchens@yahoo.com

 

Don't forget, teachers--Welcome Home!---I have a Musical History Program that I take into the schools. I am now booking for the school year 2007-2008. For information visit: A Musical Journey Through Florida.

Did you know that my CD A Folk Christmas is available online at the following sources? www.Amazon.com, www.DWMmusic.com, and www.hrmusic.com. For easy access, click on the icons below and enjoy!

One more thing---my three latest CD Releases are now available online through the following sources (or you may order POSTFREE directly from Jeanie ):

Review from: Dirty Linen Magazine

Jeanie Fitchen Love Flows Like a River [(Carry It On cp 4636 (1999)] Jeanie Fitchen Roads [Carry It On cp 4637 (1999)] Since she was a teenager, Jeanie Fitchen has been quietly making a name for herself in regional folk festivals with original ballads about the history and environment of her native Florida. These are her first CDs, but not her first recordings, and the maturity and skill of an experienced performer lends strength to both discs. Love Flows Like a River is an eclectic selection of songs with the loose theme of journey and exploration. Roads is a series of finely crafted vignettes of a Florida you don't see from Disney World: the dance of the sandhill crane, the subtle legacy of the Seminole tribe, the hard life of the people in the turpentine camps. She has a beautiful voice, as well, in the Tish Hinojosa/Joan Baez timbre. These discs should help bring Fitchen much deserved recognition outside her home state. ---Kerry Dexter, (c) Dirty Linen , Ltd. (August/September, 1999).

 Jeanie's music can now be heard on the Internet. Click icons: Saturday Light Brigadefolkcircle.com

 NOW AVAILABLE ON CD! -- Re-release of the highly-acclaimed A Folk Christmas.
...please see Discography/Music page for details.


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Jeanie Fitchen
Carry It On Productions
2456 Pacer Lane, Cocoa, Fl 32926-2606

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