PERFORMANCES + MUSIC
A collector of many-tongued old world ballads and woeful accordion soundscapes, salted with sailing songs and enlivened by traditional Irish riffs peeking through the clouds
2026 – Why the Sea is Salt, AS220, Culmination of research into psychoacoustic phenomena produced by non-digital drone instruments and voice; accidental harmonies and productive dissonance
2025 – Newport Pride Velvet Ball, juggling act at the Salve Regina University Ochre Court Mansion
2025 – Speaker for the Dead, Rhode Island School of Design, Vocal performance of traditional Dorset tune with concrete noise machine sculpted by Pablo V. Cazares
2024 - Oregon Country Fair, accordion and voice with Royalle Famille DuCaniveaux band
2022-2026 - Bardic renaissance music and clowning with duo act The Tinkertailors - Canterbury, Shrewsbury, Realms Unknown, Oregon Renaissance Faire, Washington Midsummer, TPK Brewing, New Braunfels, TX
2017 - Accordion and Crankie performance with CircoMedia, Bristol UK
2017 – No Strings Attached tight wire convergence hosted by Bullzini Family Circus, Evercreech, UK
2017 – Artist Residency with Woven Circus at Cirko Vertigo in Torino, Italy
2016 - BellinghamCircusGuild Halloween circus spectacular
2015 - EKH circus variety show Vienna, Austria
2015 – Turkish Juggling Festival Gala Show with SKOLpony
2015 – MelonRouge circus variety show with SKOLpony, Berlin, Germany
2013 – Accordion accompaniment for SKOLpony & the CoinOperated Traveling Circus Show for EJC in Gent, Belgium, EJC in Erlangen, Germany Open Stage, French National Juggling Convention – Poitiers, and the Mamagabe Convention de Jonglerie
2013 – Circus street shows in Istiklal Avenue, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 – Performed in Circo Balkani’s variety shows in Zadar, Croatia & Belgrade, Serbia
2012 – Hitchhiked with two-piece band north to street perform francophone folk punk in Alaska
2012 – Busked Montmartre in Paris
2011 – Learned accordion in a cabin in the woods of Olympia, Washington.
VOYAGES
A rambler of the world and waters, below are some highlights of half a lifetime spent hitchhiking, which includes some travels under sail and by bicycle. These journeys are the fodder for Margot’s music and performances, and laid the foundation for her ongoing linguistics studies.
2011 - Cross-Canada hitchhike, from Vancouver, BC —> Montreal, Quebec
2011 - Spent the winter in abandoned shepherds’ caves on La Palma in the Canary Islands
2013 – Wandered the mountains between Tirane and Elbason, Albania. Got a little lost. Listened to young shepherds holler and sing to each other between the peaks
2014 – Spent the winter in abandoned shepherds’ caves in Cappadocia, Turkey
2015 – Climbed Mt St Helens, explored the Sandy Glacier Ice Caves on Mt Hood, Oregon
2016 – 3 month solo hitchhike around Ireland for exposure to traditional Irish music sessions, slept in some very wet forests beset by midges
2016 – Ferry trip across Baltic Sea and hitchhiking tour of East Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland
2016 – Witnessed the inutterable glory of a man dressed as a crocodile playing trombone in a square in Warsaw
2017 – Sailed the tradewinds across the Atlantic from La Gomera, Canary Islands —> Barbados, Caribbean Sea
2018 – Hitchhiked through Amazon rainforest of Guyana
2018 – Winter bike tour of SW England from Liverpool —> Cornwall. Pedaled with Australian musician Sinead, who saw her first snow during our working residency on the restoration of trawling smack Keewaydin in Restronguet Quay
2018 – Attended Temps Fête, Douarnenez., France, the wooden boat festival and regatta
2018 – Sailed across the Atlantic, Cascais, Portugal —> Marsh Harbour, Bahamas (along Tropic of Cancer through Sargasso Sea)
2019 – 10 day wooden dory rowing trip from Anacortes, WA —> Sidney, BC (Canada) and navigation of Gulf Islands (Saltspring, Penelakut, Thetis, Reid, North Galiano, Portland)
2020 – Mainstage presenter at Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, Washington for small boat navigation of Grey’s harbor and up tidal Chehalis River
2020 – 2 person canoe team in the 70/48 race, Tacoma, WA
2020 – Rowed wooden dory down Columbia River from Portland, Or —> Astoria, OR
2025 – Worked as a gondolier rowing Venetian gondolas on the Providence River, Rhode Island