Sue Harris is an English musician classically trained as an oboeist, but best known for her folk music performances with the hammered dulcimer.
[1][2] Harris is fluent in reading and writing music and switched from her original instrument, the oboe, to the dulcimer in the mid-1970s.
On getting pregnant with their first son, she found herself unable to maintain the breath control needed to play the oboe.
Harris has also performed with Richard and Linda Thompson, and has been a composer for the BBC on various broadcast plays, as well as for live theatre.
[citation needed] More recently, in 2008 she was leader of the "Wild Angels Community Choir" in Welshpool, Powys, Wales.