Mitzie Collins

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Mitzie Collins is an interpreter of traditional British and American vocal and instrumental music.

She plays traditional music for the hammered dulcimer. Some of her many CDs include Ornaments--Music for Christmas, Be Thou My Vision--Favorite Hymns for Dulcimer and St. Patrick's Day in the Morning--Music of Irish Inspiration.

For ten years, Collins hosted Sounds Like Fun, a children's radio show on WXXI-FM in Rochester, New York. Collins is president of Sampler Records Ltd. in Rochester, New York. She is also on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music.

[edit] Discography

• Sounds Like Fun (folk songs, games, and poems for children)
• Scotland the Brave
• St. Patrick's Day in the Morning (with Roxanne Ziegler)
• White Dulcimer Christmas
• Nowell (with Roxanne Ziegler and Glennda Dove)
• Ornaments (with Roxanne Ziegler)
• Rejoice (with Roxanne Ziegler and Glennda Dove)
• By Thou My Vision (with Esther Kreek, Kinloch Nelson, and Glennda Dove)
• Traditional Irish Music (with William Sullivan)

[edit] External links

• Staff profile (Nazareth College)
• Sampler Folk Music