"Beth Leachman's clear, silvery voice is accentuated by her love of singing and her sensitive, exuberant performance style."
–Estes Park Trail Gazette
 
Beth Leachman grew up roundaboutly in Western Colorado, where she developed an interest in folk music at an early age. One of three triplets (it runs in the family), Beth grew up making music with her sisters, singing in choirs since elementary school and playing in band and orchestra.  She learned old-style Irish singing  in the West of Ireland, where she spent a year traveling, visiting sessions, and studying Irish-Gaelic in the Connemara Gaeltacht and and the National University in Galway.
 
Beth's passion for Celtic music began as a girl growing up in the West but with close ties to her mother's Irish-American family in New York.  Instantly taken with the words and melodies of Irish traditional music during her first visit to Ireland as an adult, Leachman added the bodhran and the Celtic harp to her list of talents.  For eight years, Leachman toured the U.S. with the Boston-based traditional band Siucra ("shoo-kruh" means sugar in Irish-Gaelic).  Beth sang as a guest artist with the Chieftains for their 2002 appearance Colorado's Pike's Peak Center, and has shared the stage with many other Celtic artists including Gerry O'Beirne, Randal Bays and Roger Landes.
 
Inspired by her celtic and American folk roots, Leachman has expanded her performance scope from within by singing more of her own songs at her live shows.  Leachman wrote her first song on the floor of her family's Volkswagen bus on a trip from Maryland to New York at age five, and she still finds great joy in writing and performing her original songs.  Some personal and audience favorites include "Come Day Go Day", about a New Year's Eve spent with friends in Ireland (visit www.siucra.net  for a taste), and "A Few Drops of Rain", a new song in the old folk tradition of storytelling, and the result of Beth's determined effort to write a love song with a happy ending (visit www.cdbaby.com/cd/blmk for a sound bite!).
 
Beth makes Boulder, Colorado her personal and musical home.  She earned her masters degree from the University of Colorado, and enthusiastically enjoys teaching music to young students at Creekside Elementary School.  She performs throughout the U.S. with Celtic harpist Margot Krimmel.  The duo released their debut cd "White Birds", with with wildly successful cd launch concerts in Denver presented by Kolacny Music, and in L.A. presented by the Sylvia Woods Harp Center. Leachman also performs with Boulder musicians Kevin Dooley, Steve Mullins (Laughing Hands), and Chris Engleman (e-town band) in her newest endeavor, the "celt-eclectic" band Parting Glass (www.partingglassmusic.com), and with dear friends Marianne Gardiner and Jim Abbott  in her pub band The Chancers (www.thechancers.net).