Oct 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 school, introduced me…
Sep 13 2021
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
In April 2020 I was madly putting together this website on Bandzoogle, to move my old, out-of-date website from a different server by the end of the month.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Apr 17 2020
The roads are calm but the internet is exploding with opportunities.
Paul and I are working up new material for the noontime April 28 Facebook Live "Birthday Gratitude Concert" to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. I've ordered a…
