Tana Barajas

World Music

Interests include trumpet, piano, sewing, reading, watching movies, and salsa dancing

Tara's website

Sandra Booker

Jazz Studies

Lai Yee Chan

World Music

East Asian cultures: Japanese and Chinese

Ravindra Deo

World Music

Tabla artist, Hindustani music, South Asian diaspora, authenticity and the reinvention of tradition, Asian underground

Ravi's website

Berkeley Everett

Jazz Studies

Jazz from the 50s and 60s with a focus on jazz piano performance

Berkeley's website

Jessica Freedman

Jazz Studies

Singing, playing piano, songwriting, traveling, performing, dancing

Jake Jamieson

World Music

Drumset and multi-percussionist. Funk, Hop-hop, West African drumming, multitude of Afro-diaspora (Afro-Venezuelan, Afro-Cuban), Brazilian, and anything that grooves.

Jake Kaye

World Music

American roots and folk music

Maya Lohith

World Music

Singing most music, cooking, working out, traveling, performing, reading, and sleeping

Will Magid

Jazz Studies

Jazz, West African music (afrobeat, highlife), soul, music production, Indian classical music, systematic musicology

Will's website

World Music

Taiko, piano, singing, performing, Broadway musicals, photography, animals, laughing

Anna Egholm Pederson

World Music

Music as an identity marker and music in politics. The concept of traditional and authentic music. I mostly play Scandinavian and Celtic traditional and contemporary folk music on my violin.

Tim Silva

World Music

Teaching, traveling

Tim's website

Zack Smith

World Music

Coaxing music out of anything - namely upright bass and percussion of various sorts, also recording/mixing; protools

Zack's website | Zack's other website

Thomas Stanton

World Music

Banjo, dobro, guitar, sound engineering/mixing, recording, and Pro Tools. I'm interested in bluegrass, jazz, and the banjo's roles in those genres. I received 1st place in Advanced Bluegrass Banjo at the 2004 Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest.

Thomas' website

Eli Sundelson

Jazz Studies

Hammond B-3 organ--contemporary jazz, experimental, straight-ahead, funk and soul

Yellum, Iris

Jazz Studies

Jazz saxophone and classical flute