My name is Kelly Domka, and I live in Cincinnati, Ohio. I have a non-traditional definition of family, but that does connect with Appalachian themes in a way.
I'm adopted. I was adopted at three weeks old, and I never met my birth mother, but she was from the Tennessee area. So there was a lot of family fracture, I guess, in my background. But it was a good childhood, and I spent a lot of it on the farm in Ohio in the summers, visiting my Dad.
Just about a year and a half ago, I discovered Queen City Balladeers here in Cincinnati, and it's a group of folk musicians who meet informally. Music has kind of come back into my life in a really meaningful way. My safe place is in a song circle.
