Artist description Carol Lloyd Wood holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from the University of Arkansas and has taught courses in Chaucer, Celtic and Germanic backgrounds, and other areas of medieval literature at McNeese for almost twenty years. For most of that time she has also played the harp and has spent a good deal of her professional life studying and writing about the relationship between the harp and the literature of the Middle Ages.She has performed widely on concert, Celtic, and Gothic harps from New Orleans to Paris, where her performance was sponsored by UNESCO. For four years she played with the Lake Charles Symphony and has also played at universities, Irish cultural societies, meetings of the Modern Language Association, AIDS benefits, and Kawanzaa and Christmas celebrations. With bassoonist and flautist Charles Coley, she makes up the other half of the Coley-Wood duo.In addition to her Chaucer Songbook, published by Mel Bay and now available in music stores, she has published on the harp in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Irish, and Celtic literature, as well as on the subject of charms, incantations, and songs in medieval literature. She is the author of the critically praised 1996 book An Overview of Welsh Poetry before the Norman Conquest, and she has commissioned reconstructions of several antique harps, which she plays.For her musical activities she has received grants from the Southwest Louisiana Arts and Humanities Council, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Shearman Research Initiative, and the Shearman Endowed Professorship. She was named Humanist of the Year for 1999 by the Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana for her work which "blends both scholarship and creativity. . . . . [She] has made a major contribution to medieval literary and musical scholarship."In June of this year she was named to the Louisiana State Artists Roster.

Music Style Classical & Celtic Harp

Similar Artists Harp, Flute

Location Santa Fe, NM - USA

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