Jan Kalinowski, lead guitar - comes from Gniezno, Poland and was a founding member of the "Prowizorka Jazz Band". Prowizorka has won awards all over Europe, notably the Golden Washboard many times in Warsaw, and first place at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh; the band has recorded many CDs of early Dixieland Jazz, as well as many jazz standards,

Yiming Gao, violin- Fortunately for Zendo Tavern she can't find enough outlets for her talents. She has played violin for twenty five of her twenty eight years; graduated with degrees in pre-med & German at Johns Hopkins, plus violin at Peabody Conservatory. While obtaining her masters in violin at yale, she held a chair in the New Haven Symphony, and played with Orchestra New England, and organized several Chamber groups. Her classical form was first corrupted by playing and recording fiddle tunes from Prince Edward Island. She has flipped the career transformation thing around, going from musician to becoming a doctor in her third year of medical studies.

Phil Rosenthal, mandolin - is known for his children's series of folk music CDs, CDs of his own compositions of music and lyrics, and some twenty years as singer/song writer with the Seldom Scene bluegrass band and Bluegrass Union and the many CDs the bands produced. Phil's American Melody Studio being ten minutes away, and Phil being an accomplished musician and engineer all factored into making this CD possible in a very restricted time frame of eight weeks.

Biff Cuthbert, guitar/vocals - ended his classical piano career at age fifteen and played ukelele for a year in Europe, mostly in Italy. His father took him to Wolf's in New York, age sixteen, and bought him a Drake guitar; in 1971 shortly after college, he bought a Gallagher D-70. He counts Mississippi John Hurt, Roberto Murolo , Doc Watson, Dave Van Ronk, Leo Kottke, and Paul Siebel as influences. This CD is a resolution of forty years of musical narrative.