Lindsay attributes her natural love of singing with kids to her musical family, which is jam-packed with preschool teachers, choir directors, performers, and an enthusiastic bunch of younger cousins. Growing up, Lindsay kept herself busy playing the piano and oboe, harmonizing in church and school choirs, leading the marching band and belting under the spotlight. She regularly attended the National Conference for Church Musicians in Green Lake, Wisconsin, working with a different nationally renowned youth and children's choir clinician each summer. In college she continued her wide involvement in the arts, acting in on and off-campus productions, contributing to literary magazines, serving as section leader in the Macalester Concert Choir and contributing vocals to an experimental combo called Ugly By Now. When she graduated she picked up a guitar and headed to Chicago, where she was thrilled to discover the Old Town School of Folk Music. Lindsay started working at the front desk in Spring of 2005, joined the Wiggleworms faculty in 2006, began teaching piano in 2007 and kids' voice in 2008.  She keeps busy around town performing for children's parties and events, playing originals at open mics, and singing with multiple bands:  backup vocals for Congress of Starlings, swing and standards with Baba Manouche, joyous glee with It's A Girl, and gospel jazz with Come Sunday.  Lindsay believes that music making is a joy which everyone can share. In each of her classes and performance opportunities she works to inspire creativity, playfulness,  enthusiasm and wonder: qualities which come so naturally to children but are present in us all.
 

(Photo by Ben Chandler)