TIM

Raised in central Kentucky, prefering bluegrass and old time music over the then-new and popular rock n' roll. Strongest early influences were Kentucky's Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, and a close neighbor banjo and guitar picker Buford Hager. Later - much later - when most men start thinking of retirement and golf games, he finally bought an old fiddle and managed to start scratching out a few old time tunes. This brought him in contact with some of Albuquerque's old time musicians, and membership in some really fun jam/dance bands - including Peanuts, Street Legal, the weekly cross-tuned-and-crooked South 14 Jam Band, Megaband [on an infrequent basis], and most recently the contra-dance band HEY! [as guitar player - hey... someone has to do it!].

LINDA

Linda Vik, violin, having played classical, modern and Baroque music for many years, has crossed over to old time fiddle, Appalachian style. She and her husband own House of Bread Bakery.

JANE

Originally from just south of the border (of Wisconsin), Jane Phillips plays fiddle and bass with Hey!. She likes dark and spooky modal tunes, high-energy A tunes, and most anything crooked. In her other life, Jane is a folklorist who teaches part-time at the University of New Mexico. When she grows up, Jane plans to become Queen.

CHRIS

Christopher Carlson was born a Berkeley, C.A. boy in 1969 then spent a few years in Maui before (inexplicably) moving to a small agricultural town in northern Utah with his hippie parents at the age of four. Christopher began the Suzuki violin method at the age of eight, and went to Interlochen Arts Academy his senior year of high school. During college, he veered down the dark path of folk music never to return, playing with Irish bands and performing as fiddle backup for singer-songwriters. He had secretly wanted to be a banjo player, but instead always had to practice the violin, so he started claw hammer banjo in an attempt to repress his classical music upbringing. He largely lived out of his car as a field archaeologist, finally settling down in 2000. Christopher competed in the 2004 Santa Fe Fiddle and Banjo contest, placing first in both fiddle and banjo!! He lives in Albuquerque with his wife, sons, two chickens, and a cat.

Damon

Damon Toal-Rossi is a self-proclaimed "child of O'Brother, Where Art Thou?" in that he was a lost soul bouncing between eclectic music styles before seeing the iconic Coen brothers' film. Since then he has been throwing himself mercilessly at playing claw-hammer banjo. He is a founding member of the weekly Tuesday "Press Club Jam" (née "Marble Jam"), plays occasionally with the Albuquerque Mega Band, part of The Green Billies, and most recently Hey! When not plunking the 5-string Damon keeps himself busy road biking, rock climbing, playing Rugby with the New Mexico Brujos and telling computers what to do.