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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Musician Kelly Jackson on Healing Through Music
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:26
	Publish Date:		2019-02-15 05:00:00
	Description:		Musician Kelly Jackson is currently based in Madison, but she's originally from Lac du Flambeau. As part of WXPR's We Live Up Here series, Beth Tornes talks to Jackson about her musical influences and how she uses music as medicine. For Lac du Flambeau musician Kelly Jackson , music is medicine, and has the power to heal. Music has always been part of her life, ever since she was a child and grew up listening to country music. “My father and my uncles all played guitar and sang, so I think my earliest memories of being a part of music include all night music sessions with my uncles and dad singing Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline. So they always would grab me and put me up on the table and say, OK, sing Patsy Cline. I remember not really enjoying it after a while, and then after some of my family passed, I kind of missed it.” Jackson wrote her first song at age 11 and performed it at her grade school. As a young woman, she wrote hundreds of songs in a notebook as a way of getting her
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