Sue Harris

Sue Harris is unusual in the folk music community as a fully, formally trained musician, fluent in the reading and writing of music and a classically trained musician who switched from her original instrument, the oboe, to the hammered dulcimer in the mi-1970's. In making that switch, she became one of the foremost performers on that folk instrument, though at the time it seemed just a matter of expediency. She was married at the time to John Kirkpatrick, the foremost button accordion virtuoso in England, and was pregnant with her first son and found herself unable to maintain...