DIXFIELD — After winning a second consecutive Down East Country Music Association of Maine’s Top Vocalist of the Year award, a recent Dirigo High School graduate has earned a third shot at competing in the North America Country Music Associations International competition in Tennessee. In 2013, Melanie Jordan was named Rising Star 2013 by the […]
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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 […]