Bio
I have been a musician my entire life, but it took until I was nearly 60 to realize it. That’s when I wrote my first non-parody song; when I realized that my greatest joy was writing songs, and seeing what new surprises my muse might deliver.
With 6 songs under my belt, I attended my first open mic and played 4 of them. Two audience members asked if I had a CD they could buy, and the venue invited me back to headline. My mostly folk-style music broadly integrates my earlier careers in ecology and global change research, children’s books, and providing mechanisms to being clean energy to those who live in energy poverty. As a child and teen, I was a self-taught pianist, guitar and ukulele player and singer, strongly influenced by the sounds of calypso, folk, and gospel.
The pandemic occurred at a time when I would have been building my performance chops and releasing my first album, so those things have taken time. I have recently played at the Bluebird Café Writer’s Night, at Denver’s Swallow Hill, and at Asheville’s Isis Music Hall. I will headline Boulder’s 220-seat eTown Hall on October 22nd, as a release show for my first album – At the Jamboree – and a fundraiser for local non-profit TGTHR To End Youth Homelessness.
I’m a storyteller, and stories have great power. As long as my body holds out, it’s my intention to keep telling stories that matter in ways that people can hear them.
