Tom Phillips has been playing his fiddle for English and American country dancing in New York since the 1970’s. He recorded two albums of contra dance music with the Fish Family, a band named in 1986 by his three-year-old daughter Talitha, with whom he has been dancing and singing since she was in utero at Pinewoods Camp. Nowadays Tom can be found playing Irish tunes in pubs, with his bodhran-beating wife Debra Given.