Eric Schedler plays accordion, banjo, and piano for contra and English country dancing with Midwest-based bands the Cosmic Otters, Supertrad, and the Brazenkeys. With his playing firmly rooted in traditional Irish music, Eric has performed and taught at camps and festivals around the country and served as a past program director of Cascade of Music & Dance and Cumberland Dance Week (a project of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation, of which Eric is also a member of the board of directors). Eric serves on his local dance group board in Bloomington, IN, where he operates a brick-oven bakery and lives with his wife, Katie Zukof, and two daughters, Leda and Ruth.