Flute player, singer and tin whistle player Linda Hickman is well known to Irish music fans in America for her performances with the popular group Celtic Thunder. A member of the band since 1977, she can be heard on the band's recordings "Celtic Thunder, The Light of Other Days (Green Linnet Records)" and "Hard New York Days (Kelts, Rego Records)".

Moving from Washington, D.C. to Staten Island, N.Y. in 1984 gave Linda a chance to learn from and play with Tony DeMarco, Patrick Ourceau, Jack Coen and Father Charlie Coen, was well as take part in weekly pub sessions. In 1996, she performed with fiddler Patrick Ourceau as the opening act for New York musicians Brian Conway, Tony DeMarco and Felix Dolan in a special concert in Paris, Prance, celebrating traditional Irish music from America. She performed three times at the White House with Celtic Thunder for President and Mrs. Clinton. In 2001, she performed with Tony DeMarco at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and that same year, she played the whistle for a BBC Christmas television special with reknowned opera singer, Renee Fleming.

She is also a prolific composer and, in 1999, she released her first solo CD (entitled "The Windy Day") of original compositions on wooden flute, tin whistle and American Indian flute. Tracks from her CD were used on Discovery Channel's 2001 Outward Bound series and in 2003 Showtime used a piece of hers called "Lament for Ron" as the opening track for their documentary entitled "What's Going On: Children Soldiers of the Sierra Leone" narrated by Michael Douglas, involving the United Nation's effort to find the families of children kidnapped in Africa many years ago by guerilla warriors.

She is currently dividing her time between doing therapeutic music programs, teaching flute and whistle and playing every week at the Porter House in Montvale, New Jersey.