Fall 2003    Original members  Andy Rosenfeld ,  Beth Folkemer , Stephen Folkemer ,  Margaret Folkemer, & Curtis Rockwell joined Dan Diviney to form an Irish band, Cormorant's Fancy.  Curtis has since left the band, Joel Folkemer has joined, and a few others have joined and parted.  Andy, Beth, Stephen, Joel, Meg & Dan are still alive and well performing and having a ball.  The Cormorant is most likely the 'black bird' which is translated from  Ó Duibheanaigh, the Irish ancestors of Diviney, and a fancy is a fiddle tune.  The band added some Scottish songs and tunes, as well as a few from other Celtic nations.  You'll find this Irish band playing an occasional English and American song as well.

2004 - 2005   

• filmed a short segment for a cable TV commercial to be aired spring/summer of 2005 in the Mid-Atlantic states for Gettysburg Tourism; 
• laid soundtrack for The History of New Oxford to be aired on local cable TV and available later this spring on DVD and VHS; 
• began studio recording for a CD for a Songs & Stories of a Civil War Hospital series; 
• recorded a live CD at the Fairfield Inn 
• Katie Rosenfeld sang and played fiddle with us in 2005
• Fiddler Norman Nunamaker later joined the group
• we played 42 gigs, including, 5 festivals, 6 pub gigs, 7 concerts, 22 shows at Fairfield Inn, a coffee shop gig, 2 college concerts, a wedding, and a private party.  
• And, we met allot of great people and had one heck of a great time playing for you.

March 17, 2006    Released first CD "An Evening at The Fairfield Inn".  Four months later supplies were depleted and a second batch was burned and is still available.  We are currently on our fifth run.

July 15, 2006    We closed the Adams County Irish Festival (10:30am - 8pm), following a great performance by headliner and Irish music legend Tommy Makem, "The Godfather of Irish Music"; Cathie Ryan (past lead vocalist for 7 year with Cherish the Ladies; Irish music legend Derek Warfield (Wolf Tones); Irishtown Road, local/regional class act; and The Spalpeens from Baltimore, MD.  Could we say Tommy Makem opened for us...nah - he was simply brilliant!  We rolled out our first Cormorant's Fancy shirts and sold a bunch.  Get yourself one before there are none left.  "There is no other".

Late 2007  Began our 2nd CD which may be finished late 2008 if the stars all line up properly.

July 11, 2008  Cormorant's Fancy opens for Malinky at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.

June 2008  Beth vacationed in Scotland and Dan attended the week-long Craiceann Bodhrán School in Inís Oirr, Aran Islands, Co. Galway, Ireland.  He played in a number of sessions with the likes of Tom Cussen of Shaskeen, Damien Stenson of Téada, and Johnny Ringo McDonaugh of De Dannon and Arcady, Colm Phelan, and Keiran Munnelly.

April 1, 2009  We're putting the final touches on our 2nd CD and hope to get it done by mid-June, July 5th in time for the Seminary concert.  Come to hear us and to see if we really did get the CD finished.  The bandmembers will be available to sign CDs at break and after the concert.

Cormorant's Fancy members are available for workshops and instruction.  Andy & Stephen are music faculty members at Mount Saint Marys College and the Lutheran Seminary respectively.