My family sang in the car, at bed time,I had older siblings with taste that ran toward PPM, Samon and Garfunkle, Judy Collins and Joan Baez (also Beatles, Stones, etc.) I took u violin at age 8, sang in choruses from age 11 sang in community musicals from age 13, got a dulcimer (mountain) at age 17 started my own record collection late in life (college) with Gordon Bok, Priscilla Herdman (did the Fox Hollow Festival and Maine Festival in college, and did coffee house performances through college, and back here in VT. got a wonderful injection of southern music during a stay in Virginia, wrote a few songs now and then, etc. etc. It's been kinda meandering, sort of like my life. you know, journalism, advocacy, teaching, dental assistant, chef . . . Suffice it to say I sing, therefore I am Though it's not the trade by which I eat When melodies and stories meet In song, I am alive, complete. I sing therefore I am.

Susan