ABOUT BARRA
Barra received her name from the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland and her love of storytelling from her maternal grandmother, Abigail Jones Dangler.
With a repertoire of over 5,000 stories Barra specializes in tales from the Celtic nations (Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Isle of Man, Brittany, & Spain). She also enjoys telling stories from other ethnic traditions as well as family stories of her own.
Barra holds a BS & MA in English Literature from Clarion University and has taught both Storytelling and Voice & Diction classes at the Community College of Allegheny County. She writes a regular column of Scottish folktales for Kilt & Harp, the journal of the Scottish Harp Society of America, and has contributed harp CD reviews and other articles to The Folk Harp Journal, the journal of the International Society of Folk Harpers & Craftsmen.
