Chris Brokaw / Franklin Bruno + Jenny Toomey / Alexander Turnquist

Chris Brokaw is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, drummer and film composer based in Boston. He is perhaps best known for his work as the drummer in CODEINE and the guitarist in COME, who made several albums in the 1990's for the labels Sub Pop and Matador that are considered landmarks in American independent rock music.

Since 2001, Chris has focused primarily on his work as a solo artist, making numerous albums of vocal and instrumental music. This has ranged from full on rock ("Puritan", "Gambler's Ecstasy", "Incredible Love", "Red Cities") to explorations of the 6-string and 12-string acoustic guitars ("Canaris", "VDSQ Solo Acoustic Volume 3") to the experimental and abstract ("Tundra", "Gracias, Ghost of the Future","The Periscope Twins"). His 2017 cd "The Hand That Wrote This Letter" presents instrumental classical guitar versions of David Bowie and Prince songs, and his 2019 "End of the Night" explores, with a series of collaborators, what the last record of the night should sound like.

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Musician, journalist and philosophy teacher Franklin Bruno first emerged in 1987 as the singer/guitarist for the prolific Los Angeles-based indie rock trio Nothing Paint Blue, winning wide acclaim for his relentlessly clever and verbose lyrics. In addition to his own recordings, Bruno records with The Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle as The Extra Lens. Jenny Toomey and Calexico released Tempting, a collection of Bruno's songs, on Misra Records in December 2002. 

Jenny Toomey was the driving force behind the groups Tsunami, Grenadine, Liquorice, Geek, Slack, and the independent record label Simple Machines, Toomey led the early 1990s do-it-yourself movement in rock, winning both critical praise and legions of diehard fans without suffering the pains of commercial success. After her early days in Washington, D.C., as an activist for local causes, Toomey became head of the Future of Music Coalition in 2000, which lobbies the U.S. Congress for musicians' rights.

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Alexander Turnquist is a Kingston , NY based multi-instrumentalist and composer most widely known for his use of the 12- string acoustic guitar as a driving force in creating landscape musical fantasies, expressing longings and fulfillments through movements and melody, creating harmonies out of everyday moments captured within a daydream.