Juanita was born on October 14, 1984 at Sussex Health Center. She
is the only child of Ron and Debbie MacDonald.
Juanita has always been a big fan of traditional Country music. She
enjoys listening to such artists as George Jones, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells, Hank Williams Sr., Tammy Wynette
and Charley Pride.
In 1990 Juanita started playing the guitar but soon gave it up for a while.
On October 14th, 1993 Juanita started playing the fiddle. She took
lessons for seven and half years from Winston Crawford.
Although she was a member of Winston Crawford and the Old Tyme Fiddlers
she joined the Happy Go Lucky Fiddlers in 1995.
In 1996 Juanita started to play the mandolin. She learned this instrument
on her own with no lessons. During this time she also started to play the guitar again. While learning the chords
on her own she took some picking lessons from Bob Crawford.
In 1997 she met Winston Armstrong at a Happy Go Lucky Fiddler practice.
The two teamed up playing together at Fiddling shows but soon started to do their own gigs. Also in 1997 she took up
her fourth instrument...the tenor banjo.
In 1998 Winston and Juanita left the Fiddlers and did their first
stage show alone. Since then they have played for many private gigs, concerts, round and square dances.
In 2002 Juanita graduated from Sussex Regional High School with a French
Immersion Certificate. She then enrolled into NBCC Moncton where she completed her first year of Business Technology.
Juanita is also a part time employee at Sussex Select Community Funeral
Home, working as a Family Care Coordinator.
In July 2003 Juanita was hired at Sobey's as a part time cashier. In 2005
Juanita has worked in both the Grocery department and also helping with File Maintenance.
In June 2005 Juanita graduated with honors from the Funeral and Allied
Health Services course at NSCC Kingstec Campus.
Juanita is currently living and working in Moncton. She is working at RCI
(Rogers Call Center) in the E-Care Wireless Department as a Customer Service Consultant.
