Julia Andrews, on the left, is our pianist. She's originally from Texas. She majored in music theory, if I'm not mistaken (which of course to me is crazy...why would anyone want to study music theory!!), and then moved to Nebraska to do her Master's at UNL. We've been playing together for about 3 years. She always know right where I'm going, musically speaking, and it's great to play with someone you're on the same page with! Now, if we could only get her on a mic during performances.....she's really funny!
Art Fowler is our guitar player. He's from Wisconsin, although you can't hear an accent. That could be because he speaks several languages. He teaches and translates Spanish, and lived in Spain for some time. He has his Master's degree in Spanish, which I just found out last weekend coming home from Omaha. He also speaks Japanese. We bug him all the time to tell us how to say things in Spanish and Japanese. I'm sure that doesn't irritate him at all.
Brian Daw is our guitarist. He is apparently from Kansas (I didn't know that either until this weekend), and went to UNO. His main instrument in college was French Horn, although he was gigging on bass back then. He's also a violin maker, and went to school in Utah for violin making. He has a shop in Monmouth, Il, where the band lives. Check out his website: www.dawviolins.com. He's going to make me a 5-string acoustic violin....I'm SOOOOO excited for that! It is really handy for me to have Brian around....I've already needed his help with my violin several times!
