45 years ago–Little did I realize when I built and started learning to play hammered dulcimer for a senior high school project, that it would lead all around the world (literally) and become my career! In March, 1976 I finished…
Oct 19 2021
The Circle of Life
October 19, 2021
Life gives and life takes.
I have felt that keenly recently.
Paddy Maloney, founder of the great Irish band The Chieftains, has passed. A Chieftains recording, played by a substitute teacher in my music class in middle…
Sep 13 2021
We Live in Interesting Times
I am grateful for music that brings us together, comforts us, uplifts our spirits.
I'm grateful for the internet and being able to teach, perform and play for patients online.
Saturday, September 15, 2001 (or perhaps it was one week…
Apr 13 2021
Here we are- one year later.
In April 2020 I was madly putting together this website on Bandzoogle, to move my old, out-of-date website from a different server by the end of the month. My husband Paul and I were also working up new material to…
Feb 2 2021
2021- a New Year
A new year has come. February 1st is Imbolc- the beginning of the Celtic Spring and St Bridget's Day. In Maryland we have greeted the new season with 2 days of snow. This weekend is QuaranTUNES 3.0 - the…
Dec 4 2020
Month 9 of Covid Lockdown
The photos are from Thanksgiving weekend in our living room as we get ready to pre-record videos for a Christmas Eve Pageant. Many cables, lights and covers go into recording "simple" videos!
As we come to the end of…
Aug 4 2020
Moving Online
In February 2017 in Southern California, 8 musicians took my first Mystery of Modes Workshop (pictured here!) Just a few months later in April, I taught it again to 18 participants in Maryland. Since then I have offered it a…
Jul 18 2020
End of an Era
From 1998-2017 I ran the Sligo Creek Hedge School Irish music and culture summer camps for youth ages 6-20. From the little "Sprouts" (ages 6-8) to the Teen Celtic Band weeks, and of course Musician and Intro weeks for the…
Jun 15 2020
Black Lives Matter
We live in painful and interesting and hopeful times. It's been a time of discovery and for those of us who are white, a time to support our community members of color. How phenomenal this is happening during Covid-19 quarantine-…
May 20 2020
From Ireland with Love 
May 20
I should have landed in Shannon airport this morning and been happily playing in a pub in Ennis, County Clare. In 2013, along with Jeanean Songco-Martin, painters and her family, we had a 6:00 am arrival and by…
May 12 2020
2 months- Covid Staycation
May 12th, 2020
We have now been home for 2 months. So many adjustments and the "staycation" is turning into "adaptation" for the next several months. Each week I relax a bit but also struggle to maintain or establish…
Apr 22 2020
Week 5 Covid Staycation
April 22, 1:00 am
Sometimes I wonder if I really am a legitimate musician since I am not a night person.
Yet while putting the new website together this is my 4th late night. Sharon Moore has exceeded the bonds…