Having grown up playing the fiddle from an early age, been classically trained in her high school and university years, and having dabbled in Balkan tunes, Keara set her sights on Klezmer music. After returning home, she reimmersed herself into contra dance, IFDO, and related community bands and was picked up at a local old-time jam session. She had sufficiently impressed a band member and earned herself a band invite. The rest, as they say, is history...