Nora is a longtime Celtic fiddler with a deep love of Scottish fiddle music. She is a multiple-time regional Scottish fiddle competition winner in Virginia and North Carolina and has competed in the National Scottish Fiddle Championships. in 2001, she co-founded the Triad Scottish Fiddlers & Friends music club in Winston-Salem, NC, where she fostered a welcoming community of players and led it for 14 years. After moving to Asheville, NC, Nora taught violin and fiddle at Musicians Workshop for 5 years and shared her passion for traditional music as an instructor of Beginning Fiddle at The Swannanoa Gathering’s Fiddle Week for two years. She helped establish a music session for Scottish players and leads it monthly at a local brewery. Nora has performed, and recorded cd's, with a wide range of Celtic bands, including Gaelwynd, Naomi's Fancy, Immigrant’s Daughter, and Belles on Strings. Currently, she performs in StrathSpan, a fiddle-cello-pipe trio, with her musical sisters, Julia Weatherford and Cathleen Nixon.