User:Mary Alice Bernal

Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Mary Alice now calls Nashville, TN home. Though she's sung and played guitar since a child, she decided in 2008 to concentrate on learning the fiddle. Her unusual repertoire consists of three main types of tunes: Missouri, TN/KY, and French Canadian. She plays her grandfather's fiddle as he was a French-Canadian old-time fiddler that had regular dances at their farmhouse along the Canadian/NY border in Churubusco, NY.

She is on the board of directors for the Nashville Old Time String Band Association and acted as chairperson for their 2011 & 2012 "Breakin' Up Winter" Old Time Music Gathering weekend. Mary Alice is very active in the old-time musical community in Nashville both playing and teaching tunes. She is the main fiddler for "The Jimalong Josies", a band that features Civil War era tunes and minstrel songs in period costume.