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Early life
Jerry Way, 66, started playing a $5 ukulele he got when he was 10 years old. But he was so interested in playing a guitar that he made one using a cigar box. “I was interested in guitars because of the cowboy movies,” he said. Singing cowboys Gene Autry and Roy Rogers ruled movie screens and later early TV. So, fortunately, he was given a real guitar for a Christmas present that same year. Way’s parents had musical talent. His mother played piano and his father played harmonica. Growing up on a farm between Westby and Viroqua, he majored in music when he went to college in Eau Claire.
Jerry Way is a retired music teacher with over forty years experience teaching vocal and instrumental music at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He has performed since his teens as a singer-guitarist-songwriter. The Jerry Way Orchestra has been a popular dance music group in the Chippewa Valley for decades. He also plays as a sideman on bass. Jerry holds B.A. and M.S.T. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and is a life-long composer.
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Press
http://chippewa.com/news/local/article_d0a52ca0-c29a-11e0-8ca8-001cc4c03286.html
http://chippewa.com/news/local/article_09791d36-5a20-11e0-83c0-001cc4c03286.html
http://chippewa.com/lifestyles/article_76131040-74e3-11e0-a743-001cc4c03286.html
http://volumeone.org/articles/article/2138/Chippewa_Falls_The_Musical
Freak & Geek Reviews
http://www.freaksandgeeks.org/bands-reviewed/261-jerry-way-at-the-foreign-5
Awards
Web Sites
http://www.reallygoodmusic.com/rgm.jsp?page=composers2&compid=123180
Trivia
One of his first public performances happened outside a window of a dorm room. There he serenaded the woman he first met on a double date. Carol, a woman he later married.
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Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GoVzCIG6LE
