Person Frost and Fire 11515

Viveka Fox, Peter Macfarlane, Aaron Marcus and Hollis Easter are the members of the band “Frost and Fire”. Having played informally together on stage in 2010, the band was actually formed in 2011. They play for Scottish, contra and other dances. “Frost and Fire” is based in Burlington, Vermont in the US.

The following information is taken from the band's webpage:

Frost and Fire began taking shape in July 2010 at the Champlain Valley Folk Festival in Burlington, VT. Viveka and Peter invited Aaron and Hollis to join them on stage, and as the dancers whirled and cheered, their shared energy kindled this new collaboration. As winter swept across the North, we stayed in touch, thinking about tunes and new directions.

Fast forward to the blazing summer heat of 2011, which found us on stage making music drawn from all points of the compass, our faces lit with joy and laughter, surrounded by dancers aflame with energy. At the band’s first gig in Rochester, VT, the dancing ran long into the evening–neither dancers nor band were ready for the music to stop.

Frost and Fire takes its name from T. S. Eliot’s Quartet 4, Little Gidding:

<P><EM>“Midwinter spring is its own season <BR>Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, <BR>Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. <BR>When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire, <BR>The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches, <BR>In windless cold that is the heart’s heat, <BR>Reflecting in a watery mirror <BR>A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon. <BR>And glow more intense than blaze of branch, or brazier, <BR>Stirs the dumb spirit: no wind, but pentecostal fire <BR>In the dark time of the year. Between melting and freezing <BR>The soul’s sap quivers.”</EM></P>