With a voice reminiscent of Joni Mitchell or early Linda Ronstadt, Donna is carving her own niche in the folk music scene as a unique songwriter & performer.

It was in her living room in Park Forest, IL where she developed a love for writing songs while harmonizing with her brother and sister as her brother played guitar. Influenced by the sounds of Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris and the storytelling of Harry Chapin, Donna takes these elements along with a pop sensibility to create story-like, ear-catching songs.

Starting out at open stage night at Earl's Pub on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, she has moved on to many stages. Among these are the Uncommon Ground Coffeehouse, Two Way Street Coffeehouse, Charlie's Coffeehouse, The Fox Valley Folk Festival, The Heartland Café, Lucille's, Bill's Blues and The Bluebird Café in Nashville. For a brief time, she played guitar and sang backup for The Art Thieves, a Chicago-based rock group led by John Kimsey. Her style was a perfect fit for Green Light Performing Company, a children's educational theater and dance group owned by Domenick Danza. Green Light commissioned her to write several songs for their live performances. One the songs, “Invisible Light” describes the properties of light and supernovas. The song was acted out & sung by Green Light performers at the Adler Planetarium (no relation). Donna was the voice of a popular radio spot in 1997 for the Little Lotto, singing the jingle “Metal Detector”.

Collaborations include singing harmony with Tom Dundee, Buddy Mondlock, Mark Dvorak and Chris Farrell. Her voice can also be heard in the background of the movie soundtrack for “The Vision,” a comedy horror film by Robert Alaniz, singing the song “Demon of Doubt” written by John Ludwig. She also worked with author Paula Kamen as the sound designer on her play “Seven Dates With Seven Writers”.

She has just released her 4th studio album “Stories to Keep” which includes 10 original songs and songs written by Chicago songwriters. Previous releases include “Violets and Blues” (also recorded at Creative Caffeine), “Alta Vista Sky” and “All The Riches of the World”. One of her songs appears on “Live at the Uncommon Ground, Volume I”. Her CD “Violets and Blues” received wide radio airplay on folk stations and landed her in the top artist and top album categories in 2008. She has received numerous honorable mentions for songwriting and has appeared on Rich Warren’s WFMT/The Midnight Special pick list several times.