Thank-you for visiting. Hope you like some of the music.

This site tracks my search for musical roots, earliest at page bottom. Over the years I've done a lot of gigging and recording with friends and had a great time of it. Now I play flute in Irish sessions, and occasionally do home recording, studio work, gigs with friends, private teaching, and melody notation of Irish dance tunes for those who want that.

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I grew up in downtown New York listening to French folk songs and the Clancy Brothers, took piano lessons and learned to read & write music notation at age 9. I taught myself to play guitar as a teen and later studied traditional folk ballads with Richard Dyer-Bennet, from which I somehow managed a general BA degree at college in between singing in the campus coffeehouses. I never trained as a classical musician, but briefly took lessons on a metal Boehm flute, after which I spent 8 years in England singing traditional songs, later founding a 'celtic' band in New Jersey, and for some time touring as a flute/whistle accompanist.

Wanting to reach the roots of the music in depth, I returned to Irish Traditional Music in 1998 when I was introduced to the great Irish fluter and recording artist Mike Rafferty of East Co. Galway. I have been playing flute with him ever since.

In January 2006, "300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty" was published, a book of Irish traditional music in Mike Rafferty's own settings. In July 2007 and July 2008, Mike and myself were awarded master/apprentice grants from the New Jersey State Arts Council.

As of 2008 there are now 2 Mike Rafferty tune-books, with details available at the Rafferty book website.

You can contact me if you would like further information/rates for studio recording, gigs, lessons or tune transcribing.

My husband, daughter, and kittie are also musicians.

note: the "Marie de France, Prologue" cd is no longer available - however, you can hear the entire Prologue here.