Born in Co. Cork in Ireland, she started playing the piano when she was tall enough to reach up to the keys. She studied Music and Spanish at Cork University and when she was in her twenties she went to Barcelona for a year... and there she stayed.

Her music studies turn out to be of great use to her when she finds herself accompanying the elusive melodies of her native land and she faces a whole jungle of possible harmonies.

Some years later, when she has explored the world of accompaniment in depth, it seems the time has come for another adventure. The concertina is an instrument that she finds herself increasingly drawn to and finally it is the one that leads her even deeper into the jungle, where, in the company of her fellow musicians she will become lost in the world of melody.