Charlie plays guitar, banjo, autoharp, flutes, tinwhistle, and keyboard, sings, and writes songs. He has been performing folk and traditional music of many kinds for over 35 years.
Daphne sings and does several kinds of step dancing, including Irish, Appalachian clogging and flatfooting, calls square and contra dances, and generally loves to move to music. She especially loves to get kids up and moving!
Influences
Pete Seeger, John McCutcheon, Woody Guthrie, Ginny Hawker (Appalachian singer), Ethel Caffie-Austin (Gospel singer), Dolores Heagy (clog dancer), Tim and Molly O'Brien, Michael Cooney, and many, many more fine singers and musicians all over the world.
Frets & Feet has been introducing kids of all ages to the joys of singing and moving to folk music for 20 years. In schools, churches, festivals, parties and other events, the duo of Charlie, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and vocalist, with Daphne, vocalist, dancer, and movement leader gets 'em up and moving and singing.
