User:Martha Forsyth

Martha Forsyth was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas in 2023. Friends and admirers are encouraged to visit her pages at the Caring Bridge website. —Pete Forsyth (her son)

This user lives in or comes from Boston.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Bulgaria.

Some day I have to get my act together and say something intelligent on this page, but I've been spending her time learning Wiki trickies and am (still!) not ready to do that.

Basically, a lot of my life focuses on Bulgaria, where I've spent many months recording and documenting "old songs from old ladies". For an introduction to my work, you can:

• listen to some samples of my field recordings;
• read my Blog, Bulgarian village singing (Treasures from my research since 1978);
• read about and explore my book on the life and songs of Linka Gergova

(here is a sample from the section about girlhood

(here is another particularly cool story from my research, not related to Linka);

• meet ZDRAVETS ("Boston's Friendly Neighborhood Bulgarian Band), and hear some pretty fine music from the band I helped found;
• see some of the beadwork that I learned in the small Bulgarian town Sarnitsa (Bulgarian: Сърница), at the northern end of the Dospat Reservoir in the western Rhodope mountains.
• A more recent (starting August 2007) passion is HOOPING!;
• also Things Made of Paper,
• and Family History...for myself, and for some friends. I don't have a readily available genealogy page online - yet.

-- Martha Forsyth

P.S. Re "participating in WikiProject Bulgaria"…I hope to participate more, so far it's been minimal!