• Music Teaching Artist: Jackie Tice

Jackie Tice is a songwriter, artist and mother. Born of mixed Native American (Cherokee/Crow) and European Gypsy ancestry, Jackie draws on her roots to focus her personal worldview into universal images.

An active proponent for Peace, she performed by invitation at the 2006 United Nations International Day of Peace in New York City. Among those in attendance were Michael Douglas, Jane Goodall, Yo Yo Ma and Sheika Heya Rashed Al Khalifa, President of the 61st General Assembly of the UN.

The founder of All Nations Peace, an organization dedicated to promoting peace through music, Jackie maintains a busy touring schedule and is also a teaching musician/artist.

Winner of the 2006 Indian Summer Music Award and the National Kerrville Award for Emerging Songwriters, Jackie Tice is a unique voice among acoustic performing artists. Her recent CD, Second Skin, is produced by 2005 Native American Grammy winner, Bill Miller.

"Hers is a voice that needs to be heard — her songs are as poetic as they are powerful!" (Bill Miller)