00:50 - Tu peux cogner mais tu peux pas entrer by the Magnolia Sisters
03:35 – Interview
- Originally from Boston, Massachusetts
- Moved to Louisiana in 2000
- Grandmother was a piano player
- Started playing piano and clarinet
- Played folk music on guitar in high school during high school
- Attended Bowdoin college in Southern Maine
- Started going to contredanses and square dancing each weekend
08:03 – Ballygow/The Bus Stop/MacDonald’s by Nightingale
12:08 – The Curlew/McDermott’s/Three Scones of Boxty by Altan
16:17 – Interview
- Took a year off from college, travelled to Europe for four months. Made money by busking, and playing standard old time tunes on guitar and fiddle.
- Got a steady gig at a pub in Ireland, and became immersed in Irish music.
- Took a trip to Asheville, North Carolina and started playing old time Appalachian music.
- Started playing a lot of fiddle
- Learned traditional crafts like wood working and basket making.
- Drove to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia for a summer and met a luthier in St. Ann's bay and was introduced to the Cape Breton fiddling style and violin making
22:50 – Captain Campbell Medley by Brenda Stubbert
29:20 - Wagner’s by the Monks
33:10 – Interview
- Met Otis Thomas, who was a writer, fiddler, and luthier in Cape Breton.
- Spent one summer in Cape Breton, and went back ten to twelve times.
- Spent Senior year of college at Indiana University of Bloomington.
- Was in the folklore department, and took a violin making course. Was the only girl in the course.
- Learned a lot from the old time scene in Bloomington
- Built first violin in Bloomington
- Moved back to Boston and worked in instrument repair
- Through Teach for America, she chose to go to Louisiana
39:00 – Bayou Teche Special by Balfa Toujours
42:30 - Interview
- Taught music at Washington elementary for two years, and then opened up a violin shop.
- Met husband, Richard Burgess, through playing old time music
46:00 – Fortune by Camp Creek Boys
48:45 – Soppin’ Up The Gravy by Anya and Richard Burgess
51:32 – Interview
- Recently had first son
- Maintains her violin business
- Currently playing with the Magnolia Sisters and Bonsoir Catin
57:37 – Blues à Catin by Bonsoir Catin