Flute player, singer and tinwhistle player Linda Hickman is well known to Irish music fans in America for her performances with the popular group Celtic Thunder. A member of the band since 1977, she can be heard on all three of their recordings. She is joined by bandmates Jesse Winch and pianist Regan Wick as well as fellow Falling Mountaineers Tabby Finch and Michael DeLalla on her first solo CD, The Windy Day featuring her original compositions on wooden flute, tin whistle and American Indian flute.

Linda has performed three times at the White House with Celtic Thunder for President and Mrs. Clinton and Irish guests. She performed at Maison de la Musique in Paris in a concert featuring Irish music from New York City and is a regular instructor at Catskill Irish Music Week. In 2001, she performed with Tony DeMarco at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and that same year, she played the whistle for a BBC Christmas television special with reknowned opera singer, Renee Fleming.

Linda's music has been prominently featured elsewhere on television as well. Tracks from from The Windy Day were used on Discovery Channel's 2001 Outward Bound series and in 2003 Showtime used her "Lament for Ron" as the opening track for their documentary entitled "What's Going On: Children Soldiers of the Sierra Leone" narrated by Michael Douglas, involving the United Nation's effort to find the families of children kidnapped in Africa many years ago by guerilla warriors. Linda was also featured with other Irish musicians in a PBS documentary about the music of percussionist Evelyn Glennies.

In addition to her rigorous performing schedule, Linda also brings music therapy programs in nursing homes throughout the New York area.

" What unites them all is Hickman's ablility to infuse fresh themes with a timeless sincerity and soulfulness....Hickman's compositions appear to come straight from the heart."
- Mike Joyce, The Washington Post

Linda Hickman is best known for her work with Celtic Thunder, but The Windy Day with Tabby Finch showcases her virtuosity on a variety of flutes and whistles in a collection of original compositions that draw from influences both Celtic and South American. Tabby's harp, dulcimer, and piano are equally stellar, as are the guest appearances by Michael DeLalla on guitars and Celtic Thunder bandmates Jesse Winch on bodhran and percussion and Regan Wick on piano.