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J.M. Clifford is a singer-songwriter and music educator from Brooklyn, NY.  His music draws on Bluegrass, Folk and Americana.  Clifford’s debut record, “On a Saturday Night,” was featured in The Bluegrass Situation and received rave reviews from Bluegrass Today and Holler Country.  “Complicated Man,” the first single from his upcoming record “Trains, Thinkin’ and Drinkin’”, made Ear to the Ground Music’s Top 20 songs of 2023 list.

Clifford was an Official Showcase Artist at the 2023 IBMA Business Conference in Raleigh, NC.  His single “Slow Rolling Train” earned him a spot in the final round of the 2023 Rocky Mountain Songwriting Festival.  Clifford was also selected to perform at the 2022 and 2023 IBMA Songwriter Showcase.  He has toured nationally, opening shows for Ron Pope in the Winter of 2024, and has performed at The Outpost in North Carolina, The Highlands Bluegrass Festival in New York, and the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Maine.  His 2024 Summer Tour schedule includes a performance at the Podunk Bluegrass band completion and headlining slots at the Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn, NY Lilly Ps in Cambridge, MA and Nick-A-Nees in Providence, RI.

Clifford’s upcoming record was produced by platinum-selling artist Ron Pope and features Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (fiddle), Seth Taylor (guitar), Jeff Partin (dobro), and Jeff Picker (bass).  Singles from the record have been featured on Spotify’s Indy Bluegrass and New Grass playlists and the Amazon Music’s Pickin’ On playlist.  

When he’s not leading crowds in song, Clifford leads his students as a NYC elementary school music teacher.