Captain Thalia
Kim has been playing musical instruments since being handed the requisite recorder most folks get in 5th grade. Marching and Jazz bands on saxophones of various sizes and shapes were her mainstay until college when she left it all behind to pursue “real world” skills and education.
More than 10 years later she picked up a penny whistle at the urging of her then husband, Bryan Griffith, and together they formed the Molly Hares. Later, she added more whistles, flutes, recorders, and an English bagpipe and is dabbling in various rhythm instruments and drums.
Growing as a group and with Kim leading the melody, the Molly Hares performed with and at various venues in Chicago and Minnesota, including English country dances, Royal Scottish Country Dance Society events, Terpsichory Dancers, Morris dancing, weddings, festivals and farmer’s markets.
Also during this time, Kim sang with the Minnesota Revels (holiday celebrations) for 3 years and learned that she can be a soprano, en masse, if she has to be.
After the 2003 Minnesota Renaissance festival season, Kim departed the Molly Hares. Keeping her French character with only a name change, she, and then-Molly Hare Jennifer Bradley, formed Je Ne Sais Quoi, a short lived band name before the pirate identity took over. Now they are My Lady’s Cutlass.
