Welcome to Holy
Coyote!
an Asheville/Atlanta contra dance band
where New England grace meets Southern heat!
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Holy Coyote is four musicians who have played together and apart for
contras and couples dancing since the early eighties in various combinations
and bands from The String Beings to
Red Plum Jam to the Atlanta Swamp Opera. Split between
Asheville and Atlanta, the Coyotes bring together New England, French
Canadian, and Southern tunes with energy and grace. “If you can dance, you will dance” Laurie Fisher, fiddle has been entertaining dancers and inspiring musicians for
the past 24 years. Fiddler, piano player, caller, she is best known as the
fiddler for The String Beings, an
Asheville band known for their relentless edgy rhythm and the good ride that
it provides. She also plays with Fiddlewitch, Ants in
the Pantry, and The Evil Twins.
Her driving fiddle powers Holy Coyote's
excitement and thrill. For Laurie's complete schedule, click here. Dave Marcus, concertina and button accordion has been contra dancing
and playing since 1981. Starting with the Unknown
String Band (an inadvertently appropriate name) and continuing for 12
years with Red Plum Jam, whose CD Jump at the Sun was labeled A Pinewoods Favorite by CDSS, he spent the last decade exclusively playing Irish
music, and the last year trying to figure out how on earth he stopped playing
contra dance music.
Visit his Celtic CDs review page (inactive but tasty) at
www.geocities.com/~celticreviews/.
Karen Delgado Gaughan has been playing dances from
Alabama to New Jersey for nearly 14 years and calling dances longer than that.
She has played numerous dance weekends and
couple dance events around the Southeast and is one of the busiest
dance musicians in the area. She presently teaches
elementary school music near Asheville NC and plays regularly in Wild Goose Chase and
Fly By Night, as well as the waltz band Fine Companions.
Larry Enlow, percussion and mandolin is best known as part of the
slightly whacky, tireless and talented Atlanta
Swamp Opera, a 5-piece band playing high-energy traditional Cajun &
Zydeco music with a modern flavor. He brings feet to Holy Coyote's French-Canadian roots as well as mandolin and
percussion from around the world, and infuses Lousianian
high spirits into everything from jigs to waltzes. |
This site is under construction …
please check back later. For now… write to us!
dave@holycoyote.com - karen@holycoyote.com - laurie@holycoyote.com - larry@holycoyote.com
And dance to us at
Winston-Salem October 11 --
The Lake Eden Arts Festival October 14-16
-- Atlanta's Friday night contra dance October 21
-- and New Year's Eve at the Old Farmer's Ball in Asheville