Dorothy Carter (1935 - June 7, 2003) was a musician. She was born in New York, New York in 1935 and died in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2003. Carter performed contemporary, folk, traditional and medieval music with a large collection of stringed instruments such as the hammered dulcimer, zither, psaltery and Hurdy-Gurdy. She was a founding member of Mediæval Bæbes. She began studying classical piano at age 6; she studied at Bard College in New York, the London Royal Academy and Guildhall School of Music in France.
She is survived by a son and daughter, Justin Carter of Los Angeles, California and Celeste Carter of Picayune, Mississippi and a grandson, Damien Helgason.
Discogs Dorothy Carter Credits. Retrieved 4 January October 2012.
Tribute to Dorothy Carter at the Mediæval Bæbes website Dorothy Tribute Originally retrieved by Wayback Machine on 10 August 2003