I hate Pina Coladas....
Reticent but colorful goth goddess, web hacker, and patron saint of lost goat skins, 5 foot 8 inches with Schwarzeneggerian calf muscles and a penchant for molasses chewies a la mode (Hagen Dazs mocha pecan, please). Known to wear green velvet dresses and ghillies, but prefers mid-thigh black urethane spy coat with cinched studded waist belt, silver rear-zip knee boots (2.5-inch heels), and discretely blended platinum waist-length hair extensions. Enjoys rainy Sunday afternoons and eggplant souffle at the Small Circle Cafe, careening meticulously through an exhaustive Irish repertoire (Belles of Tipperary, Jackie Coleman's, and three nameless slip jigs) on a ruby red fiddle; also rumored to be proficient on whistle, low whistle, flute, button box, harmonium, and bodhran. Former So-Cal Regional Tambourine Champion (1981-1987) and judge (1985 to present) and honorary uillean pipe instructor at annual Camp Wannabe in Nederland. Happily married to Spiderman's secret identity, but active in the online County Mayo singles scene (Turloch, dear, email me if you want your black cable-knit sweater back...I've darned the cigarette holes, but the coffee stains just won't out).
(Many thanks to Will Harmon for making me sound more interesting than I am. Heh.)
P.S. I've been hit with the charge that my bio doesn't actually say anything about me. (Will wrote it as a joke, actually, not me.) It does, but all blown up out of any proportion whatsoever. If you don't get the various jokes, you haven't known me for very long, or haven't asked anything about me or my history, or haven't hung out here at The Session long enough, so better get started. ;)
The joke starts at the first word, because "reticent" is the exact opposite of me, and the next, colorful, is funny because goths are famous for wearing nothing but black, or grey, with dark purple or dark blood red being a distant option. And I'm not and never was a goth, just so you know.
My bio would get as long as Dow's if I explained all the jokes in this thing, so I'm not going to, because I don't talk as much as Mark does. Heh.
Suffice to say: I play the fiddle, not badly, but not so's you'd call anyone down to the pub if I sat in, either, and I live in Denver, Colorado, in the the US. Stop in for a tune any time.
Oh, yes, I'm female and almost exactly middle-aged. However, I make up for that in immaturity. :)
-z
Tunes in Zina Lee's tunebook: 5
| John Carty's | reel | June 13th 2007 |
| Letting The Ranch Go Fallow | jig | May 7th 2007 |
| The Leaking Tap | jig | February 2nd 2007 |
| Cathrine's Church Mice | reel | January 26th 2007 |
| The Smell Of The Bog | hornpipe | June 27th 2006 |
| Upon My Soul | James Carty | October 19th 2006 |
| Time For A Tune With Charlie Lennon | Charlie Lennon | January 23rd 2005 |
| The Ring Sessions | James Kelly | February 6th 2003 |
| Here Among Strangers | SÍucra | October 5th 2002 |
| A Place I Know | SÍucra | October 5th 2002 |
| Frank Killkelly's "Accompanying Irish Music on Guitar" | April 15th 2005 |
| Catskills Irish Arts Week & Traditional Irish Music Festival | February 8th 2005 |
| Southwest Strings | November 23rd 2004 |
| The Journal of Music In Ireland | August 11th 2004 |
| The Sprigs | June 25th 2004 |
| Conor O'Neill's | March 20th 2004 |
| Acoustic Cafe | January 16th 2004 |
| Avogadro's Number | March 10th 2003 |
| Darcy's Irish Pub & Bistro | September 18th 2002 |
| Conor O'Neill's | August 14th 2002 |
| fiddle pickup and wireless setup - love it! | March 25th 2007 |
| Anyone from Clifden or near? | August 28th 2006 |
| Welcome to Cian! | August 11th 2006 |
| Your influences and your style | January 18th 2006 |
| "It's not what you play, it's how you play it." | January 13th 2006 |
| Discussions | Re: Question for WIll CPT | May 4th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Notations (?) | November 20th 2007 |
| Discussions | Re: Notations (?) | November 20th 2007 |
| Discussions | Re: Name Changes Revisited | November 19th 2007 |
| Discussions | Re: Name Changes Revisited | November 19th 2007 |
| Name | Type | Key |
|---|---|---|
| Eileen O'Riordan's | slide | Amixolydian |
| Jack Riordan's | reel | Dmajor |
| Letting The Ranch Go Fallow | jig | Dminor |
| Money In Both Pockets | reel | Dmajor |
| The Mossy Banks | reel | Gmajor |