Though Lisa Markley's career as a songwriter blends folk, jazz and blues influences, her recent projects have focused her acclaimed vocal talents on the jazz genre. Lisa performs locally with her jazz trio and tours with jazz guitarist and songwriter Bruce Balmer. She also continues to tour internationally with eclectic folk trio The Malvinas, playing major festivals and venues including the Kerrville Folk Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Festival Memoire et Racine in Quebec, WFMT's Folkstage in Chicago, as well as Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse, and Poor David's Pub in Dallas.

In the year 2000, Lisa won the B.W. Stevenson Songwriting Contest and received "Honorable Mention" in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest for two of her songs (in both the jazz and in the folk categories). She was a semifinalist in the Wildflower! Festival Performing Songwriter Contest in 2003, and was one of 10 regional singer/songwriters chosen by the Kerrville Folk Festival in 2001 and in 2004.

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Musicians

• Lisa Markley: banjo, guitar, lead vocals, vocals

Influences

Sarah Vaughan, Louciana Souza, Joni Mitchell, Patricia Barber, Carlos Jobim, Joe Pass, Randy Newman, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Paul Simon, Rickie Lee Jones, Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, George Rochberg

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