Natalie is a retired school teacher who moved with her family to Saint Augustine from Chino, California in November of 2014. She was born in Yuma, Arizona and started playing clarinet at age ten and switched to bassoon in high school in Phoenix, Arizona. She competed and played in Allstate Band for Arizona for two years. Then she moved to San Diego and played in the San Diego Youth Symphony and San Diego Mesa College Orchestra in the seventies. A few decades later, she became fascinated with the tenor saxophone and decided to buy one and start playing. She read about SACB and joined over two years ago.