Salisbury, North Carolina
Billie Marie Feather
www.billiefeather.com
Billie Marie Feather is a guitarist/songwriter/banjoist/bassist who originally hails from the Allegany Mountains of Johnstown, PA. She holds degrees from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Classical Guitar Performance, North Carolina Central University in Jazz Studies with a focus in Jazz Guitar, a Master’s Degree in Guitar Performance from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and a Professional Artist Certificate in Recording Engineering/Guitar from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. After obtaining her Artist Certificate, Billie was a guitar professor at Meredith College teaching both college students and community music school students. A certified Suzuki Guitar Instructor, Billie maintains an active and varied teaching studio with students of all ages and levels. Awarded a Career Development Grant from UNCSA's Kenan Foundation Billie founded her own mobile recording endeavor called Feather Farm Recordings.
In 2023, Billie was an assistant professor at Washington State University teaching Group Guitar, History of Film Music, History of Women in Music, and designed a Country Music History course with a focus on Equity, Diversity, Justice, and Inclusion. In 2024, Billie joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as Lecturer of Commercial Guitar and the Director of Popular Music Ensembles.
An advocate of popular music styles in college settings, Billie’s research has been presented at the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation and the College Music Society’s GenNext Conference and she has written an online textbook for popular music ensembles titled “How to Band: Beginning Popular Music Ensembles”. Billie’s compositions have been featured around the United States, Ireland, Costa Rica, and Iceland.
Billie can be found onstage with Hank, Pattie and The Current (a bluegrass and classical fusion group), The P-90’s (a punk band), Charles Latham and the Borrowed Band (a country-rock band), The Holland Brothers (a Piedmont style blues group), Resonator (a classical guitar and banjo duo featuring Hank Smith), Professor Twang and the Honky Tonk Review (a classic country band of professors), The Feather Jazz Trio (a trad-jazz group), and leading her own project called The Hallway Waltz. Billie’s performances have been hailed as “spectacular, athletic, and... narrative and epic rather than simply a recreation of recorded work” and a “live music find and stage presence of the first order and deserves the stellar career that is clearly in front of her” by the Camel City Dispatch blog.
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Reharmonizing Guitar Education: Jazz Meets Popular Music
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
5:30 PM - 5:55 PM CST
