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She has also now built several Cigar Box Guitars herself, plus a one string Diddley Bow made from driftwood, a Canjo, 2 Cigar Box Diddley Bows, a Cigar Box Bass, a bed warmer guitar, a guitar made from a Bourbon biscuit tin, a bass Diddley Bow, a six string lapsteel……and three Cigar Box Amps, an amp made from an old radio, a bone slide, and some bottleneck slides.
She has brought out two EPs and four albums, the most recent of which "(Sometimes) It All Lines Up" came out in May 2015. Plus two live 20 track albums, recorded while busking in Summer 2015.
In June 2011 she started going busking (Street Performing if you're from the US!) and has continued going nearly every week since, in Cambridge and other nearby towns. She finds great satisfaction in playing her own songs, on instruments she made herself, getting feedback from people and selling a few CD's.
My first busk (if you can call it that??!) was when me and my husband went down to the river near us and made a Diddley Bow on a fallen tree.
Apart from strings and nails everything else used was stuff we found there. I took a Cap transducer pick up to attach to the tree and a Roland Microcube, and played to some rather bewildered cows and people going past on the river on boats. It was a brilliant day!
There a video of it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5xC84sm7Q
Going busking I often forget something, but one day I actually forgot my guitar!!
I had nearly finished setting up before I realized and there were some people sitting on a nearby bench waiting expectantly for me to start doing something, so I got my mobile out and looked at it as if I'd just got a message, tutted and shook my head, then packed everything up again....
Another one was when I used to use a headphone mic. I took a few large swigs of water between songs, then did a loud BURP. As I hadn't swung the mic out of the way Cambridge was treated to this amplified burb with added reverb : -)
My main busking instrument is a three string cigar box guitar that I made. I put everything I'd learned over the previous three years into making it.
It was the first fretted instrument I'd done, which was a bit of a challenge, so some blood sweat and tears (literally) went into it!!
It's now starting to look a bit worn and battered after three years of busking, but still plays well : -)
