is a singer, pianist, songwriter and arranger. Music highlights in 2007 included playing with the boys in the band as 1950s rock pianist Vi Petty in
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story at the nationally renowned 5th Avenue Theatre; performing her collection of new songs
Notes From The Underground in a summer run at downtown Seattle’s Crepe de Paris; and the return of her Andrews Sisters-style big band Kitten In Swingville to perform an evening of holiday jazz and swing for the annual Season of Light Gala at the Fairmont Olympic. Songwriters and performers who inspire her: Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Nina Hagen, Joni Mitchell, Dinah Washington, Leonard Cohen, Freddie Mercury, Loretta Lynn. Music projects in 2008: Learning to play accordion for the role of Fraulein Kost in the 5th Avenue Theatre’s touring production of Cabaret and working to arrange her own songs for a second album.
