Using the airborne tones of Persephone, her beauitful hammered dulcimer, Cindy creates her own “mermaid music,” an ethereal concoction of sound waves that meet, mix, and mingle to create an experience that places the listener into her mermaid world. She uses that as a springboard from which she dives into a more contemporary style with her hammered dulcimer. She thinks it a tragedy that this instrument is considered more of a “mountain” novelty, and her dream is to bring the full beauty of this age-old instrument into the lives of every eastern North Carolinian.