RJ is made up of Ruth O’Neil and Jim Hammitt, both living in Coventry, Connecticut. Ruth O’Neil is the Director of the Song-a-Day Music Center and has performed throughout the New England area as a soloist, and with the acoustic duos (rai)2 and Just Friends. She has two released CDs, one of Children’s Music and a Holiday CD. Jim Hammitt has been performing music from Western Pennsylvania to New Hampshire, with Blue Horizon, as guest member of (rai)2, with The Mann Brothers, and as a soloist. Together, as “RJ”, they coordinate the Kid’s Kamp for the Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival. They have been part of man
y historical events, including the Prudence Crandall Museum and the Nathan Hale Homestead. Their music is original, traditional, sometimes rowdy, nostalgic, and solidly rooted in American heritage.
