Luigi Bai played hand drums on both Cross the River and Old Red Shoes.  He's got a great, laid back style that locks into the groove without trying to control it.

Herman Kluge has been a part of the Houston music scene for years, picking away at the guitar and dabbling on the mando as well.  Lately he's even started experimenting (!) on the banjo.  Herman is featured on both Cross the River and Old Red Shoes.  His resume includes the following multitude of bands: (pause and take a deep breath) The Triphonics, The Empty Set, The Prefabricated Banana, One Nation Underground, The Poor Follicles, Fast Aubrey, The Self-Righteous Brothers, The Neverly Brothers, We're Ricky Nelson, The TV Dinners, The Bill Tones, The Leftovers, Tupelo, Kokomo, The Midnite Flyer Band, Boodle Am Shake, The Roulette Band, Cowjazz, The Mahatma Gandy Goose Orchestra, Out of the Blue, Dale's Band, We May Look Like You, Somerset, The Wafer Thin Mints, The Rhythm Methodists, and the Moondance Band.

Howard Hendrix has been a part of the music scene for way longer than even Herman has, and is also featured on both Cross the River and Old Red Shoes.  Howard played tenor sax for years in the Buddy Brock orchestra, but is also known to pick up anything else that has a reed (except possibly the melodica), as well as the electric bass.  He was the leader of the Riverside band, which featured his daughter Carol Hendrix on vocals.  Oh, yeah, and the guy can sing as well. Howard currently plays for at least three bands, including the Circuit Rider Band and the Over the Hill Gang, where you can hear his clarinet singing and weaving around the horns in a Dixieland frolic.

Barbara Shreffler will occasionally lend her violin and mandolin expertise to the band, as she did on the latest album, Old Red Shoes.  If you listen closely, you can also hear Barbara's violin at performances by the Houston Ballet.  Barbara is not just a fiddler, she's a master storyteller as well, and she consistently cracks the rest of the group up during rehearsals.  During the winter holidays she cracks nuts.

We have to mention our founder David Jones, who after starting the band and teaching us how to play folk music, ran off to live in Northern California.  We like to grab hold of David and put him on stage with us when he comes back in town for a visit. He's got big, booming pipes and frails a happy banjo.