Take a voice with elements of  Tennessee  Ernie Ford, Fred Neil and  Roger Whittaker.  Now add a snazzy finger-picking guitar style flowing from Doc Watson to Merle Travis and Josh White, and you’re close to describing Ted Jordan the performer.

Ted has been a performer since the late fiftles, starting  in his native Jackson, Mississippi and working his way to clubs, concerts and festivals in Mississippi, Texas, New Mexico, Canada, the Northeast, and the Caribbean.  He has a “full set” of recordings- a vinyl album, a cassette tape, and a CD.  He has opened for Leon Redbone and Mance Lipscomb, and has played with Jerry-Jeff Walker, Michael Martin Murphey, Walter Hyatt, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Freddie King, and Mickey Raphael (aka Willie Nelson’s harmonica player).

He is locally known as an awesome guitarist and singer with a naturally dynamic and relaxed  stage presence, no matter what song he’s playing from his eclectic repertoire of a couple of hundred songs.  He can sing any style from smooth to yodeling or Louis Armstrong, but what he likes best is what he calls “upbeat, bluesy jazz”.

Ted performs solo and in three duos (with Bob Kasprzak, Sherry Somach, and Michael London, respectively).  During the day, he works as a music therapist in eldercare facilities. He also teaches clinical guitar methods in Drexel University’s Hahnemann Creative Arts in Therapy program, does guitar workshops, and has a few private guitar students.