Cindy McTee has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 31 August 2024. Songs played include California Counterpoint "The Twittering Machine".

Cindy McTee was born in 1953 in Tacoma, Washington and raised in the nearby town of Eatonville. The daughter of musical parents (her father played trumpet and her mother played clarinet), McTee often went to rehearsals of their small dance band where she heard popular music and jazz from the 1940's and 1950's. McTee began piano studies at the age of six with a teacher who encouraged improvisation (the beginnings of her career as a composer) and…