Michelle Feldman and I were best friends since we met at Marshall Junior High School. We were both in the school orchestra, where the fact that we were in different grades didn't matter.
We did a lot of growing up together in the tumultuous 1960s. She went on to marry and become a mother. We stayed in touch for a dozen more years, until she moved to Waxahachie, Texas for work.
She was always a better violinist than I was, and she kept up with the folk music scene. Her fiddling blossomed into a Celtic music career with a devoted fan following far and wide.
Michelle was smart and funny and the best friend I ever had. She was a joyous fiddler to the end of her life, and sometimes late at night when the wind is just right, I can hear her playing an Irish tune even now.
Lori Coulter
POSTED BY KRISTIE FAWCETT:
Michelle Feldman and I were best friends since we met at Marshall Junior High School. We were both in the school orchestra, where the fact that we were in different grades didn't matter.
We did a lot of growing up together in the tumultuous 1960s. She went on to marry and become a mother. We stayed in touch for a dozen more years, until she moved to Waxahachie, Texas for work.
She was always a better violinist than I was, and she kept up with the folk music scene. Her fiddling blossomed into a Celtic music career with a devoted fan following far and wide.
Michelle was smart and funny and the best friend I ever had. She was a joyous fiddler to the end of her life, and sometimes late at night when the wind is just right, I can hear her playing an Irish tune even now.
Kristie Fawcett