Migrated to @musician.social today, from @mastodon.art -- looking forward to getting closer to my musician peeps!
I'm a singer-songwriter, I write ballads, vignettes, and earnest, multipart circle songs -- occasionally reaching into other vernaculars as the song requires. Lifting voices and spirits with music and good company, in the richest of folk tradition.
By way of #introduction, I do competitive intelligence research by day and #FolkMusic (specifically #Dulcimer) by night. I also enjoy #Quilting, #Painting, #Reading, #Photography, and the occasional #Karaoke session with friends. I follow progressive politics and fully support #Democracy. I am part of the bird migration where I read more than I wrote.
Currently on the Council of the Folklore Society, Associate Editor of its journal Folklore, & on the editorial board of #FolkMusic Journal.
I've written on #ghostlore, folklore about #rats, #cannibalism at sea, tongue twisters (inter alia), and (increasingly) folklore's history. Was doing this through folkloresque representation in #folkhorror & crime novels (& soon #DrWho), now planning just as historical research. Perhaps...