[1][2] Carter performed contemporary, folk, traditional, medieval, and experimental music with a large collection of stringed instruments such as the hammered dulcimer, zither, psaltery, and hurdy-gurdy.
She later attended Bard College in New York, the London Royal Academy, and Guildhall School of Music in France.
In the early 1970s, Carter was a member of the Central Maine Power Music Company with Robert Rutman and Constance Demby.
[4] In the 1990s Carter returned to London and founded the all-female revival group Mediæval Bæbes with Katherine Blake of Miranda Sex Garden.
Carter later settled in New Orleans, residing in a live-in studio on the third floor of a warehouse building where she hosted salons.