classrooms, and on the concert stage for 20 years. She's been a wildlife

                                      educator, field researcher, museum manager and media spokesperson 

                                      for Marine World Africa, Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Cygnus Research

                                      and Education, and the California Academy of Sciences.

        Meanwhile, music was her other life-long passion.  A few years ago she left a position as

director of an environmental education organization to pursue music full time. Since then she

has toured the U.S., Canada and the U.K., performing and teaching traditional Celtic music

at festivals, concerts and workshops.  Pam's music features piano, percussion and vocals.

        She has performed in concert with Shay Black, Alasdair Fraser, Darrol Anger, Ronan

Martin, Ann Heymann, Chris Caswell, and other great Celtic musicians.  In addition to

appearing as a guest artist on CDs with Rick Fielding, Shira Kammen, New Grass Roots,

Oliver Schroyer and others, Pam released her first album of Celtic music (Wild Wood) in 2002

with the amazing fiddler Shira Kammen.  

        Her next album (Dance To Your Shadow) features rhythmic traditional a cappella

(mouth music) from cultures around the world.  On Dance To Your Shadow, Pam sings with

tradition bearers from Africa, Scotland, Tuva, Arctic Canada, and the U.S. including

Peggy Seeger, Paul Pena, Julia Tsi-Tsi Chigamba, Madeleine Allakariallak, Laurie Lewis

Christine Primrose, Wendell Brooks and the Georgia Sea Island Singers.

        Traveling around the world to study, perform and teach has resulted in a book called

 DANCE TO YOUR SHADOW: Chasing a Song Across the World, a travel narrative based on

music research. The story follows Pam's project to seek out traditional singers in several

cultures, ask them to teach her some of their music, then record it with her for a CD. 

       Combining humor, history and moments of insight, we visit wild and beautiful places,

exploring the cultural context of traditional songs in the Scottish Hebrides, Arctic Canada

and the Georgia Sea Islands. 

       In the end Pam's journey is rewarded with wonderful recordings made with tradition

bearers in all three cultures-- African American slave songs sung with the Georgia Sea

Island Singers, Inuit throat-singing with Madeleine Allakariallak, and Scottish puirt-a beul

with Christine Primrose.  To hear sound samples and find out more, click here.

        Whether she is performing, recording, teaching or writing, Pam's enthusiasm reaches

out to audiences large or small, drawing them in like old friends.