Barbara Imhoff
Barbara graduated in harp and piano from UC Santa Barbara, then was asked to join the faculty as a harp instructor. While in Santa Barbara, she performed and toured regularly with avant garde composers Daniel Lentz, Harold Budd, Lou Harrison, as well as David Ossman of the Fire Sign Theater.

In 1980, after moving to the Bay Area, she performed regularly with George Coates Performance Works and with the outsider theatre group and band Elbows Akimbo, writing the music with DianaTrimble for O Flame of Living Love and The Tempest. She has written, recorded and performed regularly with Pamela Z and the Qube Chix, and her own bands: Beasts of Paradise (with Stephen Kent and Eda Maxym), Ring (with Patti Clemens) and Aether (with Diana Trimble). She's recorded/performed with Todd Rundgren, Ronnie Montrose, Toni Childs, the Beach Boys, Sting, Jai Uttal, and members of the Tuesday Night Music Club (Sheryl Crowe's producers); her own producers include David Palmer of The The, and Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie.

Barbara played for 20 years as an orchestra harpist for Oakland Symphony, Ballet and Opera, Berkeley Symphony and numerous local orchestras. Her influences were strongly contemporary classical - Bartok, Stravinsky, Ligeti - which shows up in some of her lusher song arrangements. Her use of layered processing on the harp comes from her love of 60's psychedelia as well as her collaborations with heavy metal guitarist Ronnie Montrose. Her harp writing was radically altered under his influence, and her playing and writing became much more guitar-like. Bindi Society is her current beloved project.

Cait McWhir
Originally from Northern Ireland, Cait has been singing from the heart for many years. Past projects include Haunted by Waters, Samsara's Edge and numerous others. Cait is also featured on Christopher Tin's 2010 double grammy-award winning album "Calling All Dawns".

She continues to do studio work for film and has been featured in international sound libraries. "Singing is a magical thing that comes from my heart. It has always been about healing for me, and will probably always be. It is about expressing something that is inexpressible through speech. For this reason I prefer to sing in ancient languages and invented sounds which are my own 'language'. Sanskrit is a natural choice as often the meaning of the word is in the sound and it is a beautiful intoxicating language to sing in."

"...She has an incredible versatility allowing her to freely cross between conventional folklore to ancient Sanskrit chants and Vedic mantras to free improvisation in self-made languages..." www.chakrasongs.com

Bean (Tina Blaine)
Long inspired by global traditions and spontaneous music-making, Tina Blaine (also known by her stage name, "Bean") has been studying percussion for more than 30 years with master drummers all over the world, from Africa to Asia and beyond. She has written music for NPR, video games, TV and documentary soundtracks, and has performed/recorded with Brian Eno, Mickey Hart, Haunted by Waters, D'CüCKOO, Maze Daiko, Pandemonaeon, University of Pittsburgh Gamelan, members of Kodo and others lured by the muse.

Bean has a Masters of Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University and taught at CMU from 2000 - 2006. Her musical research has been inspired by the creation of collective musical experiences, including the Jam-O-Drum, a collaborative audiovisual instrument on exhibit at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Bean first embarked upon her exploration of musical interaction techniques in the 1980s, building electronic MIDI controller instruments and large-scale audience participation devices for live performance with the multimedia ensemble D'CuCKOO. She is currently the executive director of Rhythmix Cultural Works.

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