Principal songwriter, singer and acoustic guitarist C, is the youngest in a musically diverse family. Surrounded by her music-playing siblings, C started “pounding” on the piano at age 5, and wrote her first song by age 9.

“Guitar playing came as a happy accident when my piano moved to Florida without me when I was in my early 20s,” she explains. After a few music-less months, a guitar found itself into her hands, and C discovered the instrument that she should have been playing her whole life.

C’s non-traditional parents and much older siblings lent to a colorful, mixed bag of musical influences. Her earliest musical memory is her passion for the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar.” C’s eclectic tastes continued with Ray Charles and Harry Chapin and then moved through the pop rock of the 1960s & ’70s. Finally, the discovery of Indigo Girls’ music in the late 1980s fueled her desire to learn acoustic guitar.

C continues to be thrilled with the reunification of friendship and musicianship with “the boys” of Talisman the band. She says, “I am looking forward to writing more material to play with them for years to come.”