Blair Tindall

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Blair Tindall (born February 2) is an American oboist, performer, speaker, and journalist.

Tindall was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to American historian George Brown Tindall and Carliss Blossom McGarrity Tindall. She started playing the piano at a young age, and switched to oboe when joining the junior high school band, because of her surname's place in alphabetical order, she was the last person able to choose an instrument and the only other one available was the bassoon. She attended the North Carolina School of the Arts from 1975 to 1978. She spent 21 years as a professional musician in New York City, playing with such groups as the New York Philharmonic, presenting a critically acclaimed solo debut at Carnegie Recital Hall, and earning a jazz Grammy nomination. At age 40, she earned a journalism degree from Stanford University, and went on to write for the New York Times, Agence France-Presse, the Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune. In 2005 she authored Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Atlantic Monthly Press), a memoir of her experiences in the classical music world.

She was married to Bill Nye (the Science Guy) on February 3, 2006 [1] but it ended after seven weeks. [2] He was her fiance for five months before the marriage took place.