Martha Clancy has won international recognition for her harp playing. She won the All-Ireland Harp Championship and the U.S. Championship of the Scottish harp in the same year, the only American to have held both titles. Clancy has also been a musical director at the famous Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia. She is on the faculty of a music school outside of Philadelphia and has many private harp students as well. Martha's arrangements have been published internationally.