I was born and raised in New York City, and can rarely be found anywhere else. I've tended to let my fingers do the traveling.
Over the years I've picked and rolled my way through flamenco guitar, bluegrass banjo, Klezmer mandolin to garden variety Americana ... and back again. I've always loved playing and listening to traditional folk music and writing and playing my own songs.
In high school I began to play guitar and banjo, and to write and perform my own songs. Subsequently, I studied classical and flamenco guitar with Dennis Koster at the American Institute of Guitar and banjo with Jack Baker, founder of the Fretted Instruments School of Guitar and Banjo. I also did quite a bit of learning on the job, playing in New York-based ensembles like the Cool as Grits String Band, Black Coffee, the Dixie Trixies, Minetta Creek and the Linemen. In 2011 and 2012 I performed in the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium in George Boziwick's Red Skies Music lecture performances. Check out the bands (link to band page) with whom I’m working now: Sarabande, Stillhouse Widows, and Leah and the Geminis.
In addition to writing music, I have also written books and articles, and am beginning some exciting ventures in the word of knitting.
I composed my first songbook at age three (it was called The Buffalo Bill Songbook and my sister illustrated it). Nothing has changed: my book of musical games for children, Games That Sing, was published by Heritage Music Press in 2011 and my sister illustrated that one too.
In high school I began to play guitar and banjo, and to write and perform my own songs. Subsequently I studied classical and flamenco guitar with Dennis Koster at the American Institute of Guitar, and banjo with Jack Baker, founder of the Fretted Instruments School of Guitar and Banjo. I also did quite a bit of learning on the job, playing in New York-based ensembles like the Cool as Grits String Band, Black Coffee, the Dixie Trixies, Minetta Creek and the Linemen. In 2011 and 2012 I performed in the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium in George Boziwick's Red Skies Music lecture performances.
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