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[from www.MurielAnderson.com] Widely respected as one of the country's foremost guitarist, Muriel Anderson is the first woman to have won the National Finger picking Guitar Championship. She is host and originator of the renowned "Muriel Anderson's ALL STAR GUITAR NIGHTŪ" and founder of the Music for Life Alliance, to support music education in schools and grassroots programs nationwide. Muriel fell in love with the guitar at an early age and learned every style available to her, culminating in classical guitar study at DePaul University. She went on to study with classical virtuoso Christopher Parkening and with Nashville legend Chet Atkins. She has composed music since about age six, and has written music for guitar and strings as well as songs, solo compositions, choral and orchestral works.

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Arkansas native and jazz pianist/composer/bandleader Tom Cox grew up in Little Rock during the '50s and '60s.  He did his undergraduate music studies at Indiana University and graduate studies at The Cleveland Institute of Music, where he received degrees in music composition.  During the '70s he joined the faculties of both the Cleveland Music School Settlement and Akron University’s Firestone Conservatory of Music, teaching theory, composition, jazz piano and improvisation.  During that time he was also the leader of his own jazz quartet, members of which included such recording artists as saxophonists Joe Lovano (1996 Wildwood Jazz Festival) and Ernie Krivda, Marty Barker (drummer with Yusef Lateef), and Weather Report percussionist Skip Hadden.  It was during this period that he also met and took brief piano-chair stints with international jazz artists Freddie Hubbard and Cannonball Adderly.  Cox returned to Little Rock in 1980, joining the Music Department faculty at UALR where he has taught jazz piano, jazz combo, and theory.  Since returning to Arkansas he remains active as a jazz ensemble leader and composer. He has had several different trios and quartets in Arkansas, all of which have performed extensively throughout the state.