Joel is also an award-winning author. His memoir The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness (Algonquin, 2003), has now been translated into some 18 languages and is in development as both a feature film and a musical. His second book, Dreidels on the Brain (Dial 2016), was chosen as a finalist for the national Jewish book award. 

Spanning the centuries from baroque to pop music, violinist Maxine Nemerovski has played with groups ranging from Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to Jacksonville Symphony, to Beach Blanket Babylon, to Led Zeppelin. She has performed classically across Europe and South America, played pop music in Brazil, taught violin pedagogy to violin teachers in Nicaragua, and created and performed children's concerts in Ireland, comparing Baroque music to traditional Irish music. She enjoys and thrives on playing different palates of diverse genres and interesting "off beat" projects. Maxine can be heard on many recordings including orchestral, movie soundtracks, commercials and pop.

Paul Hale has been performing with period instruments in the Bay Area since the late 1970s. He studied with many teachers, including Irene Sharp, and primarily Margaret Rowell at UC Berkeley, where he was awarded the Eizner Prize for performing artists, and soloed with the UC Symphony. He earned a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley,  and after designing two new locking mechanisms for the Schlage Lock Co., he joined the Oakland Symphony and began a music career.  Paul has been a cello instructor at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and the Castro Valley School of Music. He is currently a member of Opera San Jose, California Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and often subs in the Freeway Philharmonic circuit. He has performed and recorded a wide range of music including contemporary classical music, baroque concertos and solo cantatas, and most of the recordings by Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He has worked with many contemporary composers, and played with the period instrument ensemble American Baroque. Occasionally, for fun, his bowing hand wields a soldering iron to rebuild old vacuum tube amplifiers.

Peter Maund is a native of San Francisco. He studied percussion at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and music, folklore and ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley. A founding member of Ensemble Alcatraz and Alasdair Fraser's Skyedance, he has performed with early and contemporary music ensembles including American Bach Soloists, Alboka, Anonymous 4,  Chanticleer, Davka, El Mundo, The Harp Consort, Hesperion XX, Kitka, Los Cenzontles, Musica Pacifica, Pacific MusicWorks, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Texas Early Music Project and Voices of Music, among others.

Presenters and performance venues include the Berkeley Festival, Cal Performances, Carnegie Hall, Celtic Connections (Glasgow), Cervantino Festival (Guanajuato), Confederation House (Jerusalem), Edinburgh Festival, Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Festival Pau Casals, Fillmore Auditorium, Folkfestival Dranouter, Freight & Salvage, Horizante Orient Okzident (Berlin), The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Palacio Congresos (Madrid), Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), and Tage Alter Musik (Regensburg). Peter is the author of "Percussion" in A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music, Indiana University Press, 2000. He has served on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley as well as workshops sponsored by Amherst Early Music, the San Francisco Early Music Society, the American Recorder Society and the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. Described by the Glasgow Herald as "the most considerate and imaginative of percussionists" he can be heard on over 60 recordings.