EDUCATION
CPC Harvard Extension School, Certificate in Publishing and Communications, November 2000
M.A. Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School for Social Change, Feminist Studies in Folk Music
B.A. Boston University, Music History and Education, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude

PERFORMANCES
1973-present

Recent performances:
2009 • 888 Memorial Drive Tribute and International Women’s Day event - to listen to the actual 1971 march songs
2008
• Sanctuary and Transformation: Songs of Social Justice Now and Then (see presentation)
• Still Ain't Satisfied: The Golden Age of Lesbian Feminist Music (see presentation) - listen to Still Ain't Satisfied
2004/03 • “When Hippies Roamed the Earth: Songs and Stories of the Golden Age of Cambridge,” at Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge
2003 • Community Church of Boston, Musician, March 16
2002
• Take Back the Music Concert, Cambridge Peace Commission, Concert
• Cambridge Peace Commission’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, October
2000 • “Kitchen Table Conversations,” Senior Center, February 26. Sponsored by the Cambridge Women’s Heritage Project and the Cambridge Women’s Commission.
1999 • Songs for the Celebration of Margaret Fuller/Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, July

Other performances:
1994 • "Terra Nova", Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
1994 • New Words (20th Birthday Concert, April 1994) in Cambridge, MA
1985-1993 • THE OXYMORONS. Four-person á cappella group sang political satire, parodies, love songs. Appeared at Passim, Charles River Festival, Modern Time Café
1991 • “SUPER POWER AUF DER LAUER” (“SUPERPOWER ON THE PROWL”). Gender-bending songs, political music. Appeared at various Boston coffeehouses, CMAC, and the Freiraum, Munich, Germany, February
1985• Modern Times Cafe
1979-1981 • COWFOLKS’ DREAM. Country/comedy duo. Vocals, guitar, fiddle and mandolin. Appeared at the Idler and various colleges and festivals.
1973-1980 • THE NEW HARMONY SISTERHOOD BAND. Five-woman string band which performed folk music with feminist lyrics. Vocals, mandolin, fiddle, autoharp, piano, recorder, various percussion instruments, arranging and transcribing. Recorded one album and one tape, toured through southeastern U.S.
1976-1979 • THE BUNKER MOUNTAIN FIDDLERS. Five-person “old timey” southern mountain music band. Vocals, fiddle, and mandolin. Performed at Passim’s, The Idler, and The Springfield Street Saloon; at various colleges and festivals, and on WGBH-TV’s “Club 44” program - listen to selected songs
1974 • Professional Harpsichordist – Orson Welles Restaurant and Cambridge City Fairs
• Political Rallies - various times

RECORDINGS & TELEVISION APPEARANCES
1991 • “Two Good Arms,” Charlie King, Pied Asp Music (backup vocals)
1987 • “Charles River Festival: The Oxymorons” - Somerville Cable Access TV
1981 • “New Harmony Sisterhood Band, Reunion Tape”, Greyfeather Music
1980
• “Walls to Roses: Songs of Changing Men.” Folkways Records, FTS 37587 (fiddle)
• “Club 44” WGBH TV Show, Cambridge, MA - Bunker Mountain Fiddlers, live performance
1979 • “Sweet Sorcery: Cathy Winter and Betsy Rose.” Origami Records (mandolin)
1977 • “New Harmony Sisterhood Band: And Ain’t I A Woman.” Paredon Records, P-1038
1976 • “Robert Gear: Steel Guitar and Dobro.” Physical Records 32-007, (fiddle, mandolin)

PUBLICATIONS (selected)
2009
Forthcoming. “Biphobia” (with Robyn Ochs) in Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Antisemitism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Ableism, and Classism, 2nd edition (Routledge), edited by Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Rosie Castañeda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, and Ximena Zúñiga.
1993-2002 • Book Reviewer, "Harvard Review"
1997 • Memoir, "Meredith: An Everyday Saint" in The Brattler, Fall 1997
1994 • "Letter from the Gender War Border Zone" in Harvard Review, No. 6, Spring 1994
1992
• “Moving Beyond Binary Thinking,” with Robyn Ochs,
• "Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price", Warren Blumenfeld, ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. pp. 67-75
1985-87
• Music Editor, "Sojourner: The Women’s Forum"
• Feature articles, reviews, interviews
• "All Our Lives: A Women’s Songbook", Diana Press. Co-Editor. Song transcription, historical introductions to each song, sectional essays, resource list