Foxfire
Karen Axelrod, Massachusetts Karen Axelrod plays piano for English, American and Scottish dance and has been on staff at numerous dance events around the country, including Pinewoods, Ogontz and Buffalo Gap camps, Berea Christmas Dance School and Brasstown Winter Dance Week. Karen is highly regarded for her creative and rich piano accompaniment. She also plays accordion for the renowned longsword team, Orion Longsword. She plays in the band Foxfire (with Daron Douglas) and Woodlark (with Earl Gaddis and Chris Rua). Karen is also a professional dog walker (with a Ph.D. in dog walking from a highly respected internet correspondence school), and occasionally appears with the comedy improv troupe, the Villa Jidiots.
Daron Douglas, New Orleans Daron Douglas plays fiddle for dancing. She thanks her grandmother for passing on family ballads (many of which were collected by Cecil Sharp from Daron's great-grandmother, Jane Gentry, in 1916 and 1917) and also for her love of gardening. Daron has played with the Knoxville Early Music Project and the Hominy Mamas (a trio once billed at a library party as 'providing an evening of song and comedy' even though they thought of their work as traditional Appalachian singing games!). She also plays with the contra dance band Misbehavin?, known for their original waltzes CD's, ?Just Over the Mountain? and "Somewhere Between Here and Home." Daron has been on the staff at Country Dance and Song Society dance camps, at Ashokan fiddle & dance camps, and at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., teaching and playing English country dance fiddle. She now lives and plays music in New Orleans, and tours throughout the USA to play English country dances and contra dances at festivals and dance camps on her own and with the bands Goldcrest and Foxfire.
For more information on Foxfire and their first recording, click here.