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A Late Start, A Blossoming Career For Artist Isabel Taylor

Isabel Taylor with guitar
Courtesy of Isabel Taylor

wanted to perform on stage for a long time. So long, in fact, that it became one of those dreams that lingered until it felt more and more distant. So she finally set a deadline: by 40 she would take the stage at an open mic.

That deadline came and went. Years later, it was a birthday request from her husband that finally pushed her to get up on the stage and sing. She may have been a late bloomer, but from that point forward Taylor did, indeed, blossom.

Today she writes original tunes influenced by 鈥�60s and 鈥�70s folk, and her debut CD 鈥溾€� at one point hit top 15 album on the Folk DJ Chart. Taylor joins host Frank Stasio in studio to talk about her music career and to play a live set alongside award-winning guitarist and vocalist .

Taylor performs in , in , and in .

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Laura Pellicer is a digital reporter with 吉彩网网站鈥檚 small but intrepid digital news team.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.