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Trained in classical piano and voice, Lyn Burnstine found her true love in American traditional folk music, when an early onset of rheumatoid arthritis in her wrists at age twenty-three made playing the piano nearly impossible. The first of many compensations in her life involved finding a variety of instruments that she could use to accompany her songs, such as the autoharp, mountain dulcimer, psaltery, kalimba and mouthbow. Her musical journey took her to settings as diverse as schools, historic restorations, libraries, cruise ships and churches. Her greatest musical passion was for original worship services that she presented in 75 different Unitarian Universalist churches and fellowships throughout 16 states. |
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those four decades, she was also supporting and encouraging other folk
singers’ careers by running coffeehouses and concerts, as well as teaching
music and implementing inter-generational programs with nursing home
residents and pre-schoolers. |
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Born and raised in Illinois, Lyn has called New York’s verdant Hudson River Valley home for over fifty years. Mother of three, grandmother of five and great-grandmother of one, she is now living a quieter version of her pre-retirement life: still singing a bit; booking folk concerts; writing; reading at public venues; and enjoying landscape photography, swimming, Scrabble, crossword puzzles and time with her family members--many of whom are musical. Her first book, Anita Trueman Pickett: New Thought Preacher, a biography of a Unitarian minister, was published by Skinner House Books, when Lyn was 67 years old; her memoir, Singin' All the Way: My Life's Journey, when she was 71, and part two of her memoir, Second Verse: Second Chorus at 74. |
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