sentences:  While at Ulysses S. Grant High School, she started playing "Hoot Nights" at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, where she met the musicians Steve Mann and Hoyt Axton and became part of the growing musical scene of Los Angeles.Her first paid performance was at the Green Spider Coffee House in Denver, Colorado at the age of nineteen.Soon she was part of the "Hippie Migration," traveling the California Coast and living off earnings from her performances.