Cathleen grew up in a piping household and began piping lessons with her father P/M Sandy Jones, at age 8. She was busy at Scottish games as a kid, competing in both solo piping and pipe band contests in addition to highland dancing. She started playing pipe tunes on the fiddle as an adult and transitioned many fiddle tunes to the small pipes. When not at her day job as a nurse practitioner, she loves the joy of playing music with Nora and Julia! She also actively teaches piping to young people and strives to keep her father’s legacy alive administering the North American Academy of Piping and Drumming in Valle Crucis, NC which has been held each summer since 1970.