Marla Fibish (mandolin, mandola, button accordion and voice) has been a part of the San Francisco Irish Music scene for nearly 30 years.

She is known primarily as a mandolin player, for the drive and lift in her playing.  She is also known as a singer, and a crafter of the odd song, and uses the mandola as her axe for accompanying her singing.  Everyone is entitled to a mid-life crisis, and for Marla that was a new love in her life — the button accordion.  A true San Franciscan, she went for the press-draw style — C#/D for you accordion geeks that care about such things.

Marla has appeared in many musical guises over the years — in the duo Double Treble with singer Sylvia Herold; for many years with the primarily vocal group Out of the Rain, with whom she released a few recordings back in the late 80s; as the ‘tall blonde’ in The Frontmen with Rory McNamara and Stevie Coyle, and for many years with Heart of the Roll.  She teaches mandolin privately, as well as annually at Lark Camp, and will be on the 2010 staff of California Coast Music Camp. Marla also indulges in non-traditional quilting, from which the artwork on this site is drawn. (marla@threemilestonemusic.com)