Daniel Bradbury plays mostly traditional music on the banjo and Anglo concertina. A product of the folk revival of the 1960's he was immersed in the crazy California mix of music throughout the 1970's and 80's.
Dan played professionally in an old time string band, recording and touring extensively on the West Coast. His work led him to travel and live in many parts of the world, including Turkey, Pakistan, West and Southern Africa.
Although he remained focused on the traditional approach to early American music, his interest in all forms of traditional music has led him to adopt some of the influences of the cultures in which he lived. He is as likely to play an Afghan tune on the banjo, or a Cajun or Klezmer tune on the concertina, as he is a hoedown or an Irish Jig.
In the 1980's he produced a recurring folk festival for a number of years. This festival was an opportunity to gather the best traditional musicians from along the entire West Coast to play together. There one could find Balkan singers, Flamenco dancers, Irish musicians, French country dance music bands, Portuguese Fado singers, Indonesian Gamelans, Cajun bands, and traditional American musicians playing for and with each other, exploring homegrown music in its truest sense.
David Brown is a musician and videographer who also presents house concerts in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Judy Tampa, John McEwen, George Pappas, and Harry Hayward.
"Bunko Squad is as thrilling as a Japanese monster movie and you barely need sub-titles. I like them way more than snow skiing. Personally, I've never tried skiing. Did I mention how nice and polite they are? I give them an A+."
- Ronny Elliott
Bunko Squad sports a former punk-lite rocker and Midnighter with Hank Ballard; a guitarist who plays djembe, Irish bouzouki, and mandolin pretty much all at once; a tall-tale-teller from West Virginia; and a drummer whose mouth is bigger than his kit.
"I've never heard any of those songs you play."
- Dawn Pendola
"Why would anyone ever write a song like that?"
- Bill Dudley
"Yeah, man, all that stuff about West Virginia is true."
- Toby Bonar
Gary Burge is an experienced web developer and techno-activist who once aspired to be a musician and music teacher. That goal was dashed on the rocks of reality when, as a high school senior, he conducted his school's band and orchestra and discovered he didn't want to put up with class clowns like himself.
After toying with journalism, advertising, commercial fishing, public relations, home construction, rock band photography, film and video production, he "settled" on computer programming, which while not as glamorous, allowed him to earn a decent living.
His last "big company" job was at CompuServe, where he pioneered products for the (then) emerging Internet, such as the first "personal home pages", possibly the first live music club webcast (the opening of Aerosmith's Mama Kin club in Boston), a Halloween eve webcast of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds (sponsored by the Mars candy company, of course), and an application that downloaded 1996 Martian Lander photos directly from the Lander to your PC as wallpaper.
When AOL bought CompuServe in 1998 (partly to get the Internet products he developed), Gary cashed in his golden parachute and his DotCom IPOs before the bubble burst and moved to Florida to reunite with a former girlfriend and love of his life, who is now his wife.
After living at the beach and on their 40-foot sailboat, Gary and Judi and their two cats live in (Lovely) Lutz, Florida, where Gary creates cool web applications for non-profits, small businesses and other interesting people.
Gary created this website, and as a member of David Audet's Merry Pranksters, also created the websites for Deep Carnivale and The Festival of the Moving Image . His own website is at GaryBurge.com , where you can download the Power Point slides he used in his presentation.