DIXFIELD — A Dirigo High School senior who received national recognition at a Tennessee country music competition last year has qualified to return in March. Vocalist Melanie Jordan, 18, won fifth place in the 13- to 16-year-old age bracket for new modern country and a Future Star of Tomorrow Award trophy in March 2014 at […]
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Reporter’s notebook: Road trip to Tennessee, NYC unforgettable
DIXFIELD — Spending a week and a half on a tour bus and in a Tennessee hotel with country music performers from across the nation and Canada was a great experience for Rumford nurse Mandy Bither Jordan and her 17-year-old daughter, Melanie Jordan. And the road trip to states and places they’d never been to was […]
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Dixfield teen wins ‘Future Star’ trophy in Tennessee
DIXFIELD — Getting the chance to compete nationally by singing country music in Tennessee last week meant the world to a Dixfield teenager and her mother. Vocalist Melanie Jordan said she thinks she won either fourth or fifth place in her 13- to 16-year-old age bracket for new modern country. She won’t know how she […]
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Dixfield teen vocalist to compete nationally in Tennessee
DIXFIELD — Wearing jeans with holes in them and a Rolling Stones T-shirt, vocalist Melanie Jordan stood beside her karaoke machine in her living room Wednesday night, waiting for music to begin. Her mother, Mandy Bither Jordan, stood nearby in their one-story ranch house on Canton Point Road. Their two dogs were shut away in […]