Juni Fisher

In the central San Joaquin Valley of California, a horse crazy kid to grew up in a farming family, but between school and countless singing performances with her two sisters, Juni found a way to have horses, and 4-H and FFA honors followed her through out her school years. While studying Equine Science at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, she rode young horses for neighbors, worked gates at the sales yard, and helped local ranchers. A good “catch rider“, she rode her way through college, with top honors at Intercollegiate and Quarter Horse shows. Meanwhile, she was earning horse show entry money singing big band standards in a dance orchestra.She trained cowhorses from snaffle bitters to bridle horses, winning her first Snaffle Bit Futurity (IARCHA) in ’81, her first Bridle Horse Championship in ’83 (the Monterey Classic) while working on a cow calf operation, and running a roping arena. Her bridle horses did day work on the ranch, and competed weekends with much success. If there was a campfire gathering with music, Juni was there with her guitar, singing the songs of the west she’d learned from her father. In 1984 she moved to Santa Ynez, CA, to train cutting horses, taking her songwriting skills with her. Juni’s ability to ride at speed across the hills found her working as a foxhunting professional, and she accepted a one year position with a hunt club in Tennessee. Point to point racing, steeplechasing, and horse trials took the place of cowhorses, while she honed her songwriting skills amongst some of Nashville’s finest. She and husband Rusty, who works for Purina Mills as an Equine Specialist, keep two favorite horses these days, living near Franklin, Tennessee.She recorded her first Western release, “Tumbleweed Letters” in late 1999. Monterey Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival director Gary Brown heard her first album, and hunted her down to perform at the 2004 Festival. He shared Juni’s music with other promoters and artists, and started the wheels turning, allowing Juni to shift her profession to the music she loved most. Juni released a second album, “Sideshow Romance” in the summer of 2004. Her third release, “Cowgirlography” (2006) features the 2007 WMA Song of the Year winner: a beautiful duet with Sons of the San Joaquin's Joe Hannah, and received a WMA Top Five nod for Album of the Year. 2008 brought her most ambitious project to date, a historical album about her great Grandfather's early life as a young cowhand, titled "Gone For Colorado." Fans and Dee-Jays began raving about the CD, and in 2008, she became the first woman to receive the WMA Songwriter of the Year award. OIn February 2009, the announcement came that "Gone For Colorado" had won the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum's prestigeous Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Album of 2008. She was chosen by Larrivee Guitars as their featured artist for their September and October 2006 magazine advertisements, and proudly endorses Larrivee Guitars, Elixir Guitar Strings, and Tonto Rim Trading Co, hats.Fisher is performing at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV, Monterey Cowboy Festival, Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, Spirit of the West Festival in Washington, Cochise Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Heber City Cowboy Poetry Gathering, The Riverbend Music Festival, and many more venues. From her appearances, and by word of mouth, the bookings and the kudos keep rolling in, including the 2005 Academy of Western Artists Western Female Vocalist of the Year, 2005 Western Music Association Crescendo Award, 2006 Western Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year, 2007 WMA Song of the Year, 2008 WMA Songwriter of the Year, and 2008 Western Heritage Wrangler Award Winner. Juni is the first woman in the history of the National Cowboy Museum's Wrangler Awards to win the "most Outstanding Traditional Western Album" category. Header Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!