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  About Juni...
In the central San Joaquin Valley of California, a horse crazy kid to grew up in a farming family.  In between school and countless singing performances with her two sisters, Juni found a way to have horses, and 4-H and FFA honors followed her through out her school years.

While studying Equine Science at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, she rode young horses for neighbors, worked gates at the sales yard, and helped local ranches.  A good “catch rider“, she rode her way through college with top honors at Intercollegiate and Quarter Horse shows.  Meanwhile, she was earning horse show entry money singing big band standards in a dance orchestra.

While working on a cow calf operation and running a roping arena, Juni trained cow horses from snaffle bitters to bridle horses, winning her first Snaffle Bit Futurity (IARCHA) in ’81, and her first Bridle Horse Championship in ’83 (the Monterey Classic). Her bridle horses did day work on the ranch, and competed weekends with much success. If there was a campfire gathering with music, Juni was there with her guitar, singing the songs of the west she’d learned from her father. In 1984 she moved to Santa Ynez, CA, to train cutting horses, taking her blossoming songwriting skills with her.

A local band was quick to ask her to play rhythm guitar and sing leads and backups. Members of the noted Rancheros Vistadores, an elite group of ranchers from across the nation, noticed her singing around town, which led her to working L.A. area clubs with a popular country band, which was also playing western and cowboy music.  

Juni’s ability to ride at speed across the hills found her working as a foxhunting professional, and she accepted a one year position with a hunt club in Tennessee.  Point to point racing, steeplechasing, and horse trials took the place of cowhorses, while she honed her songwriting skills amongst some of Nashville’s finest.

In late 1999, Juni recorded her first Western release, “Tumbleweed Letters.”  The Monterey Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival director Gary Brown heard her first album, and hunted her down to perform at the 2004 Festival. He shared Juni’s music with other promoters and artists, and started the wheels turning, allowing Juni to shift her profession to the music she loved most.  Juni released a second album, “Sideshow Romance” in the summer of 2004.  Her third release, “Cowgirlography” in 2006 features a duet with Sons of the San Joaquin's Joe Hannah, and has received rave reviews. 

Fisher is a lot easier to find these days, performing at venues like the Monterey Cowboy Festival, Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, the Colorado Cowboy Gathering, Spirit of the West Festival, Cochise Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Salinas and Big Bear Lake Gatherings, radio shows, The Riverbend Music Festival, and many more venues. From her appearances and by word of mouth, the bookings and the kudos keep rolling in, including the 2005 Academy of Western Artists Western Female Vocalist of the Year,  2005 Western Music Association Crescendo Award, and 2006 Western Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year.  She was chosen by Larrivee Guitars as their featured artist for their September and October 2006 magazine advertisements, and proudly   endorses Larrivee Guitars and Elixir Guitar Strings. 

She and husband Rusty, who works as an Equine Specialist, keep two favorite horses these days, living near Franklin, Tennessee.

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