Helen’s first guitar came in an army-green box from Sear’s, and it looked and sounded beautiful to her at age 11. It took a while to learn to tune it, but it was well worth it, and it was the beginning of her love for guitars. It also left her with a passion to want to show others that they could learn to play an instrument too if they wanted. She also learned the ukulele so that, if the guitar was not a good fit, maybe the ukulele would be for students!

 

For the past 25 years, Helen has been working with students to find their songs when learning an instrument by focusing on the particular songs and style they want to work with, and also helping with basic “singing the songs they love” to accompany themselves. Over the years,

 

Over the years, Helen has played with various groups (The Wildflowers, The High Road, Whitsel-Peterson, Barrett/Peterson) playing Americana, folk, country, gospel, and bluegrass. This has included doing lead vocals, harmonies, and playing guitar in the Boulder/Denver area.

 

Currently, in addition to teaching, she is in the process of writing more songs and working with friends on new performing ideas.