Ardis Cavin has a Master's degree in voice from Indiana University.  She has performed extensively in concert, opera and musical comedy.  She was the recipient of the American Federation of Music Club's annual award for outstanding musical performance in Washington, D.C., and was also the International Platform Association's first prizewinner.

          She has performed at Lincoln Center in the Hecksher Oval and the Donnell Music Library in New York City.  Channel 13 has featured her in a special entitled "Ballads from Britain" and she was seen on Cable TV in a program designed for children.  She has made numerous appearances in schools, churches and civic organizations in the Tri-State area.

          Afterward, she performed with the South Dakota State Marching Band.  "There was not another harp in 500 miles," she noted.

          The big harp stayed in South Dakota when Cavin came East.  Fifteen years later she was living in Washington D.C. where one day she found a much smaller harp, an Irish harp, sitting on a veranda.  It was about to be sold.  Bidding against antique dealers and interior decorators, Cavin won and took home the harp.

          She teaches harp and voice in her Englewood studio.