Gerrie Kawabata

Gerrie played the flute many moons ago in college and picked it up in the past few years. She enjoys playing culturally relevant music with high-spirited band mates. The other place you may hear her is in the Ballard Sedentary Sousa Band. Her day job for the past 20 years has been teaching ESL.

Scott Granlund

Scott was born in Port Angeles in 1959. He performs regularly with La Banda Gozona, Northstar Saxophone Quartet, Valse Café Orchestra and a number of orchestras and chamber ensembles in the greater Seattle area. Scott has performed as soloist with Cascade Symphony, Philharmonia NW, Puget Sound Music Society Concert Band, Volunteer Park Conservatory Orchestra and Washington Wind Symphony. Past musical projects include several Vodvil Theater productions, FR3D (an 'art-rock' ensemble), Anti-Fascist Marching Band, Raging Maggots and many works with various dance troupes. He can be heard on recordings with Black Cat Orchestra, David Byrne, Land and Soundgarden. His performances have included most sizes of the saxophone, tiny sopranino to the mighty basso.

Scott has studied with saxophonists Lee Patrick and Sigurd Raschèr at their respective summer workshops, with Michael Brockman at the University of Washington and with Gary Edighoffer at Spokane Falls Community College. One workshop at Yale University featured a saxophone orchestra 56 members strong.

Mr. Granlund owns and operates Granlund Woodwind Repair located in the Belltown neighborhood of downtown Seattle.

Scott plays older saxophones built at a time when musical instrument manufactures prided themselves in building a 'modern' saxophone while still complying with the original acoustic specifications and mouthpiece design of the instruments' inventor, Adolphe Sax.

Marc Smason

Trombonist/vocalist/composer, Marc Smason learned to sing as a child in texas and studied classical and jazz trombone in Seattle and Los Angeles with Stu Dempster (and dijeridu), Julian Priester, Ken Cloud and Slide Hampton.

Marc has enjoyed teaching privately and in school workshops. He has performed throughout the world with such luminaries as The Funk Brothers, Andy Statman, Big Joe Turner, Perry Robinson, Sam Shepard, Julian Priester, Sonny Simmons, Jeff Johnson and The Ivar's Clams. His playing encompasses many styles including jazz, latin, klezmer and r&b.

Joseph Sheedy, el Inspector.

Sheedy has been known to coax music out of sticks and integrated circuits, art out of inkjet printers, and love out of bicycles. He manages the soprano saxophone section. Joseph has played with the Datura Blues, Beast Please Be Still, The Fremont Philharmonic, the Anti-Facist Marching Band, the Seattle Central Community College Thursday night Jazz Orchestra, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Jazz Band, Mah Jong, and others.

Dick Valentine

Versatile, eclectic, motivated, sensitive ensemble contributor. Professional performance experience on saxophones, flutes, clarinets, hand percussion, voice, bass, synthesizers, and a large array of native and ethnic wind and string instruments (dizi, xiao, kaval, ney, qena, kenacho, shakuhachi, arghoul, nose flute, xun, nai, guanzi, suona, dijeridu, gu-qin, san xian).

Professional performance and recording experience in numerous styles: baroque, classic, impressionist, serial, aleatoric, minimalist, traditional jazz, bebop/postbop, free, world beat, punk rock, rhythm and blues, trance/meditation, fusion.

Beverly Setzer

Bev has performed with the Tacoma Symphony, Federal Way Symphony, Village Theatre Orchestra, Bellevue Philharmonic, Puget Sound Music Society Concert Band, The Lorien Winds (founding member), Ensemble Sospeso, The Mellifluous Zephyrs (founding member), Washingon Wind Symphony, Civic Light Opera Orchestra, Young Composer's Collective, La Filarmonica del Bajio, and the New Art Orchestra (founding member).

Beverly Setzer has also appeared with the Seattle Philharmonic, Philharmonia Northwest, Orchestra Seattle, the Soni Ventorum, the Juneau Symphony and the Rainier Chamber Winds.

Bill 'Memo' Clifford

He's an earthling who is fortunate to be friends with Zapotec artist Fulgencio Lazo and his family and to know a lot of talented musicians who enjoy participating in Oaxacan culture. Other musical associations include the Anti-Fascist Marching Band, the University of Chicago Marching Kazoo Band (the largest marching kazoo band in the world!) and a variety of lame rock bands.

Clayton Murray - Tuba

When not playing tuba with La Banda Gozona, the Ballard Sedentary Sousa Band, the Sanca Circus band or the NW Accordionaires, Clayton is a professional pianist, performing mostly jazz, but also classically trained. He plays solo piano for weddings, banquets, private events, and at the Marlai Thai restaurant on the weekends. He also performs in combos, works as music director, accompanies vocalists and dancers, and teaches private piano lessons. In his spare time (is there such a thing?) he is also learning accordion. "The important thing is... it's all music, and music is fun!"

Kris Fulsaas

Kris Fulsaas learned to play the piano while learning to read (a long time ago), but because it's not a very portable instrument, she switched to percussion in the Anti-Fascist Marching Band and now in La Banda Gozona. Her favorite instrument currently is the the triangulo, with the guiro a close second.

Salamandir

Over the years, salamandir has played a bewildering variety of brass, woodwind and keyboard instruments (some at the same time) in symphony orchestras, theatre orchestras, marching bands, community orchestras, recording studios, rehearsal bands, pick-up groups and on the street. His primary musical influences are Frank Zappa, Morton Subotnik, Philip Glass, The Holy Modal Rounders, Popeye, Donald Duck, various roots and herbs, and everything else. He also plays with The Fremont Philharmonic, The Cirque De Flambe, The Fremont Players, and The Ballard Sedentary Sousa Band.

Ben Smith

Ben is a multiple medium artist. He created the Junk Chime, an audience participation/ performance art installation featuring a mobile percussion sculpture employing recycled metal objects selected and suspended to vector tonal qualities.

Ben has performed on and facilitated public use of the Junk Chime at Bumbershoot, Imagination Celebration, Artspring, Artquake, the KOMO Kidsfair, Kent Canterbury Faire, Fircrest School, the Puyallup Fair, Evergreen College Super Saturday, Longview Earth Day, and many other events since its development began in 1984.

He is a singer, songwriter, musician, and spoken word performer and has performed at many Seattle area venues. He plays the guitar, harmonica, percussion, and electric clarinet in the Anti Fascist Marching Band. Past projects include En Route, The Plutonium Rock Trio, The Clamdiggers of Reality, Junior's Yak, and the Ravenna Civic Marching Band.

Greg Powers

Greg is a trombonist, tubist, arranger, improviser and composer. In addition to extensive classical experience, he has perform Dhrupad, Dixie, Sing, Avant Garde and Jazz. Greg was a Fulbright Fellow to India in 1988, where he studied Hindustani Music on the trombone. He has been freelancing and teaching in Seattle for the past 25 years.

Greg has performed with Pran, a duo with Stuart Dempster, the Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tacoma Symphony, the Bavarian Village Band, and numerous brass ensembles including The Pacific Brass, Washington Brass, Italico Brass, and The Bellevue Philharmonic Brass Quartet.