Elisabeth Waldo has been played on NTS shows including Gabi, with Balsa Boat first played on 25 January 2021.

Elisabeth Waldo Dentzel (born June 18, 1918) is an American violinist, composer, songwriter, conductor and ethnomusicologist. A scholar of pre-Columbian era music, she was an early adopter of Native American musical instruments among those trained in European classical music. Her melding of ancient and contemporary styles of American music ranks Waldo among the pioneers in the genre now known as exotica.

Waldo was born in Yakima, Washington to Jane Althea Blodgett, a singer trained at the Boston Conservatory of Music, and Benjamin Franklin Waldo, a descendant of…