With Spectratone International, Goldston's rejoined Mirah for the 2007 album Share This Place: Stories and Observations. They were joined by Kane Mathis on oud, Jane Hall on percussion, and Darko Vukmanic on bass. Goldston and Hanson reprised their roles on cello and accordion, respectively. Goldston's group disbanded in 2004, but soon after, she and Hanson founded Spectratone International. The Black Cat Orchestra teamed up with Mirah for the political album To All We Stretch the Open Arm. In 2003, Goldston and Hanson entered the first of many collaborations with then-Portland-based artist Mirah. Later bands and collaborations with Mirah (2003–2015) They followed it in 2001 with Mysteries Explained, co-produced with Irene Records, and then and Long Shadows at Noon from Yoyo Recordings (2003). In 1996, the group recorded and independently released a self-titled debut album. Meanwhile, with the Black Cat Orchestra, she toured and recorded for prominent national acts, including David Byrne (on his 1997 album Feelings), the One Reel Film Festival (at that time under the aegis of Bumbershoot), and NPR's This American Life. Through the nineties and early millennium, Goldston played on dozens of studio albums. In the mid-nineties, Goldston rose to prominence in the Pacific Northwest music scene as a session cellist, notably joining Nirvana on a US tour and appearing on their famous MTV Unplugged in New York set. Nirvana's MTV Unplugged session and studio recordings (1994–2003)
In 1989, Goldston co-founded the Black Cat Orchestra, with Don Crevie on horn, Scott Granlund on saxophone, Jessika Kenney on vocals, and Goldston's partner and fellow Run/Remain alum Kyle Hanson on accordion. Through the late eighties, Goldston performed with the Run/Remain Ensemble, a multimedia collaboration with Dayna Hanson, Kyle Hanson, Greg Lachow, and Megan Murphy. Goldston dropped out before attaining a degree and would later describe herself as “rigorously detrained.”
At Bennington College, Goldston trained with Maxine Neuman, Milford Graves, Arthur Brooks, Vivian Fine, and Frank Baker. She studied cello with Aaron Shapinsky, and guitar with Bob Suppan and Joe Monk. Raised in the Long Island town of East Meadow, Goldston received training on cello, guitar, piano, and voice.