Starbucking: Beth Patterson with "Waltzes: Hauling Coffee/The Road to Guapiles"

Beth Patterson brings us today's random tune, Waltzes: Hauling Coffee/The Road to Guapiles. From Lafayette, Louisiana, Beth Patterson is a singer-songwriter who starts from a base of Irish and Celtic music and adds a few drops of Cajun, worldbeat and progressive rock. She began her career playing Cajun bass and as a classical oboist, and studied traditional Irish music and ethnomusicology at University College Cork in Ireland. She finished a bachelor's degree in music therapy at Loyola University in New Orleans, and she took up the Irish bouzouki which is now her preferred instrument. She was a founding member of the Poor Clares, an Irish ensemble that opened to rave reviews in New Orleans, and she has also released four solo albums and two with the Poor Clares. You can find Waltzes: Hauling Coffee/The Road to Guapiles on her 1999 album Hybrid Vigor.