Editing Martie Maguire (section)

==Early career==
By 1983, Martie was touring with her sister Emily and school friends siblings Troy and [[Sharon Gilchrist]].<ref name="JamBase">{{cite web|url=http://www.jambase.com/Artists/Bio.aspx?ArtistID=29795 |title=Sharon Gilchrist Bio, History, Info on JamBase |publisher=Jambase.com |access-date=2014-07-15}}</ref> The sisters showed an "almost obsessive" interest in [[busking]] at small venues and attending bluegrass festivals.<ref name="Frost">Frost, Jane [http://www.dixie-chicks.com/stories.shtml Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS, Early 1980s The All-Inclusive Dixie Chicks Page] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923215315/http://www.dixie-chicks.com/stories.shtml |date=September 23, 2015 }}</ref> The four students formed the teenage [[bluegrass music|bluegrass]] group "Blue Night Express", playing together for five years, from 1984 to 1989,<ref name="Faraway Hills">Gilchrist, Sharon [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/farawayhills/sharon_gilchrist.html  Faraway Hills Retrieved 12 February, 2008] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182257/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/farawayhills/sharon_gilchrist.html |date=March 3, 2016 }}</ref> while still attending private [[Greenhill School (Addison, Texas)|Greenhill School]].<ref name=Leggett/> "We'd drive down to the west end of Dallas and open our cases, and that was our job," Martie said of it in a later interview to [[60 Minutes II]] [[correspondent]] [[Dan Rather]]. "That's how we made money in high school."<ref name="Rather">Rather, Dan 60 Minutes
II [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/10/23/60II/main243501.shtml?source=search_story Dixie Chicks Not Whistling Dixie The Trio Has Sold 17 Million CDs] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016114544/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/10/23/60II/main243501.shtml?source=search_story |date=October 16, 2013 }} September 6, 2002 Retrieved June 26, 2008</ref> Also while in high school Martie performed at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, TX, in a strolling duo with Troy Gilchrist for a summer.

In 1987, Martie was awarded second place for the fiddle in the National fiddle championships held yearly in [[Winfield, Kansas]]. Upon graduation from high school, with Emily still in high school, she spent a year attending college at [[Southwestern University]] in [[Georgetown, Texas]], from 1988 to 1989. She performed in the school orchestra there and again competed in the national fiddle championships at the [[Walnut Valley Festival]], in Winfield, earning third place that year.<ref name="Walnut Valley Association">{{cite web|url=http://www.wvfest.com/ |title=Walnut Valley Festival - Winfield, Kansas |publisher=Wvfest.com |access-date=2014-07-15}}</ref>

In the 90s she played occasionally with the [[slo-core]] band, [[Bedhead (band)|Bedhead]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://ovrld.com/interviews/interview-underground-legend/ | title=Interview with Matt Kadane - Texan underground legend| date=November 22, 2013}}</ref>