1970 -
Danny is born in Austin, TX.
1973 -
Carrie is born in Cleveland, OH.
1975 -
Carrie starts singing before she can talk.
1983 -
Danny buys his first guitar with his Bar Mitzvah money.
1990 -
Danny buys his first acoustic guitar after obsessing on
Mississippi John Hurt's music.
1990 -
Carrie starts singing and busting moves in show choir.
1993 -
Danny drops out of college and moves to
East Wind Community in the Ozark Mountains in southern Missouri.
1994 -
Danny writes his very first song, Cliff Song.
1995 -
Danny moves to
Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia.
1995 -
Carrie learns three chords on the guitar.
1995 -
Carrie writes her first 13 songs, drops out of college, and records her debut album, Simplicity.
1998 -
Carrie sings the national anthem for a Chicago Bulls game. Michael Jordan shakes her hand and smiles.
1998 -
Danny moves to Charlottesville, VA and begins performing live.
1999 -
Danny records his first album, Live At The Prism Coffeehouse.
1999 -
Carrie moves to Taos, NM where she continues to write and perform. She meets Colin Brooks who will later become her producer.
2001 -
Danny records his second album, Enjoying The Fall.
2001 -
Carrie goes back to college, completes a degree in physiology, and records her second album, Live at the Front Room.
2002 -
Danny begins to tour some around the U.S.
2002 -
Carrie moves to Steamboat Springs, CO to work as an organic chemist, and records her third album, The Waltz in her free time.
2003 -
Danny records his third album, Make Right The Time.
2004 -
Danny moves back to Austin, TX.
2004 -
Danny puts music on hold for a year while dealing with a health crisis.
2005 -
Danny releases his fourth album, Parables & Primes, and begins performing again.
2005 -
Danny begins touring and playing music full time.
2005 -
Danny has his first international tour, and begins touring in Europe.
2006 -
Carrie moves to Boston, MA and earns her living playing music in the subway stations.
2007 -
Danny and Carrie Elkin meet at the
Folk Alliance Conference.
2007 -
Carrie moves to Austin, TX and records her fourth album, Jeopardy Of Circumstance.
2007 -
Danny releases his fifth album,
Little Grey Sheep on
Waterbug Records.
2008 -
Danny signs with
Red House Records.
2009 -
Danny releases his sixth album,
Instead The Forest Rose To Sing on
Red House Records.
2011 -
Danny releases his seventh album,
Man Of Many Moons on
Red House Records.
2011 -
Carrie signs with
Red House Records.
2011 -
Carrie releases her fifth album,
Call It My Garden on
Red House Records.
2012 -
Carrie is named the
Texas Artist of the Year by
Texas Music Magazine.
2012 -
Danny and Carrie begin touring together as a duo.
2014 -
Danny and Carrie release their first duo album,
For Keeps on
Red House Records.
2014 -
Danny and Carrie get married in Fischer, TX.
2015 -
Danny releases his eighth solo album, Owls.
