20 IRON PICKERS™ Make It the Full 12 Hours in 2024 Marathon Jam!
February 24th marked the return of the 12-hour Marathon Jam live and in person benefit jam for our core mission … “raising funds to support “healing through music” for injured military & first-responder heroes and their families”. The music jam traditionally operates from noon to midnight and those musicians who make it the whole time are recognized and celebrated as “IRON PICKER” and thereby awarded the cherished MJ Iron Picker black t-shirt – worn with pride!
The twenty IRON PICKERS making it 12 hours in the 2024 Marathon Jam at American Legion Post 6 just outside of Chapel Hill, NC included: standing L/R: Tony McLamb, Vance Archer, Zachary, Steve “Catfish” Coe, Lawrence Sleeper, Bruce Day*, Julien McCarthy, Tom O’Shea*, Betty Finney, Lonnie Burchfield, Kirby Heard*, Charles Fields*, Clayton Smith; Kneeling L/R: Kimberly, Susan Borgesi*, Jennifer Griffith, Karen Pepin*, Dan Jones*, Robert Welch* and Ben Farmer.
*Marathon Jam Board Members