Margaret started harp lessons at the age of fourteen with harpist Susannah Shucksmith.
She then continued her musical training under the late Sidonie Goossens OBE and Sussex harpist Helen Arnold.
She has played for Royalty and has given recitals at National Trust properties, played at the City of London Guildhall, The Baltic Exchange, The Savoy, Ritz and Hilton Langham Hotels in London,
The Garrick Club in London, Glyndebourne Opera House, The Royal Courts of Justice
and for many weddings, private and charity functions.
She is resident harpist at Penshurst Place in Kent, playing in the state rooms and gardens wearing period costume and featured in the BBC2 series 'The Supersizers Go Medieval' with Sue Perkins, which was filmed there.
Margaret makes period costumes and wears them when she plays at historic venues.
Some of these have been Carrisbrooke, Chiddingstone, Corfe, Bodium, Hever Castles,
Battle Abbey, Clandon Park and Polesden Lacey,
More unusual venues include:
The Insurance Institute of London, Southampton Airport,The Foundling Hospital London, Wimbledon Tennis Championships, London Zoo, Fort Nelson,
The Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust in Arundel and Gatwick Airport ~ to name but a few.
Harp music can also be very theraputic and she regularly entertains residents in
nursing, residential and care homes.
Margaret works for the charity 'Music In Hospitals' and gives bedside concerts for patients and the mentally or physically disabled in hospitals and specialist care centres.
She also gives informal talks and demonstrations to schools, Women's Institutes, U3A,s, Rotary, Lions, Probus and other groups.
