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 was born long ago as Linda Cummiskey, violinist. She heard her first fiddler in Dublin (New Hampshire) in the '70s, was smitten and resolved to learn to fiddle by ear. The opportunity arose to be the fiddler in The Old Twine String Band in San Diego. First the band cruelly ripped the music out of her hand and then helped her playing not sound too much like Schubert. She moved to ABQ in 1992 and joined the Albuquerque Megaband, an open band that jams once a month and plays the third Saturday contra dance. There she met fiddler David Margolin who taught her all the crunchy stuff with the bow. She played in Wren Again and now HEY!. She collected lots of tunes from the Megaband throughout the '90s and compiled the collection now available on three CDs. She plays Baroque violin with the Albuquerque Baroque Players, and teaches fiddle.

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.