Margaret Meadors Bowlin performs at times with her sons Virgil Bowlin and David Bowlin in the band, “Virgil Bowlin and Peerless Mountain.”  She  lives close to her birth place near the southeastern Kentucky town of Williamsburg, in Whitley County.

 Margaret believes she started singing before or during the time she learned to talk because music was a natural, everyday part of life in her family of origin. She first attended church as a newborn, received and believed in Jesus as her own Savior at an early age. Throughout the years, wherever she lived, she has attended church regularly, and music has been an important part of worship with fellow Christians.

Margaret and her late husband, Xerxes Bowlin, who also had a strong birth family musical heritage, shared music for forty years. The couple taught and encouraged their sons toward excellence as instrumentalists and vocalists.

Margaret says that she has been a teacher at heart from childhood. Over a period of more than forty years, she has taught English in high school and college and has taught general music in every public school grade level, kindergarten through twelve. She has also taught private music lessons and mountain music in elder hostel classes. Over a lifetime, beginning at age four, Margaret has performed as a soloist and as a member of several musical groups in small and large venues. She especially treasures the memories of performances with her husband Xerxes and their sons Virgil and David in the group, “The Bowlin Family.”