More than 4 decades as a 
touring professional have found 
Michigan native Claudia Schmidt 
traversing North America as well as 
Europe in venues ranging from intimate 
clubs to 4,000 seat theatres, and festival 
stages in front of 25,000 rapt listeners. 
She has recorded nineteen albums of 
mostly original songs, exploring folk, 
blues, and jazz idioms featuring 
her acclaimed 12-string 
guitar and mountain 
dulcimer playing.