“Mary Uke” Hargreaves was raised on Mozart, apple pie, and polkas in a musical family in southern New England. She learned classical piano as a child and guitar as a teen, and now the ukulele! During her college days in Boston, she became strongly influenced by the Folk Music scene and spent many evenings singing and jamming with musician friends.

Her early influences include ... the Beatles, George Harrison, the Guthries, Theodore Bikel, Tom Rush, John Hurt, Buffy Sainte Marie, Neil Young, Donovan, Mimi Farina, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Peter Paul & Mary, Linda Ronstadt, Jonathan Edwards, Jimmy Cliff, Jonathan Edwards, Anni Clark, Kate Schrock, and Ellis Paul.