User:Kate Dunlay

Kate Dunlay was raised near Boston. Traditional music has been one of her strongest interests for many years. She began fiddling for contra and folk dancing in New Hampshire while at Dartmouth College, and also attended fiddle and dance clubs in Sweden during an exchange semester in Lund. After obtaining a BA in Environmental Studies, Kate lived in Vermont for several years, where she was a member of The Green Mountain Volunteers, a group performing traditional New England dance and music. Later she moved back to the Boston area and joined Mandala, an international folk dance troupe. She also studied Scottish and Irish dance and music specifically.

A grant from the NEA in 1984 provided a summer of fiddle workshops with Buddy MacMaster and stepdance lessons with Minnie MacMaster in Cape Breton. Inspired by this, Kate decided to pursue a more formal education in Folklore and Ethnomusicology. In 1988 she graduated from Indiana University with an M.A. degree.

Kate moved to Ontario in 1988, and then Nova Scotia in 2000, with her husband David Greenberg. They are are co-authors of Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton, the DunGreen Collection. Kate teaches courses in Celtic music and the music of Atlantic Canada through Saint Mary's University and Cape Breton University.