photo: Teq Minsky
Born and raised in New York City, Tara has enjoyed time on both coasts and moved to Taos, NM in 2005.
She worked as an elementary school music teacher from 2010-2021 and one of her greatest delights is singing folk songs in groups. She organized Taos’ Pete Seeger sing-along in March 2014 to honor his life, and ran Taos’ Acoustic Music Circle for several years following that.
Tara plays a repertoire of traditional northern New Mexican tunes on fiddle and guitar monthly at Taos Retirement Village in honor of performer and song-preservationist Jenny Vincent.
Finding inspiration on snowy hikes in the sagebrush, Tara started writing songs when she was living off-grid near Taos’ Rio Grande Gorge. Now some of her songs, such as “The Subway Song” have become sing-along songs at local venues.
Tara co-wrote several songs with Bruce David Martin, including “We Have a Dream” (covered by Elizabeth Sullivan), “Simple Acts of Kindness” (covered by Jagger Halverson), “My City” and “The Heights.” Bruce’s musical spirit lives on through these songs, his own original tunes and whatever magical vibrations he is cooking up from the great beyond.
Tara now works as a clinical therapist at Teambuilders Behavioral Health.
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