MARCIA BALL - KEYBOARDS, VOCALS
Marcia honed her powerful singing and deft, rollicking keyboard chops while growing up in the small town of Vinton, Louisiana, just across the Texas border. This musical and cultural frontier was and is a hotbed of country, blues, gospel, Cajun, Zydeco, rockabilly and Gulf Coast "swamp pop", and young Marcia absorbed it all, even as she was receiving her formal piano training. After attending LSU, Marcia hit Austin in the late 1970s, started the beloved band "Freda and the Firedogs" and soon after signed with Capitol Records.

Marcia has since recorded five critically acclaimed Rounder albums - Soulful Dress, Hot Tamale Baby, Gatorhythms, Blue House, and her current album, Let Me Play With Your Poodle, bursts with passion, excitement and sly humor. Marcia’s prolific studio work is sandwiched between live appearances that keep her constantly in touch with her legion of fans throughout the U.S. and Europe. She has appeared at virtually every festival on both continents and has been featured on leading radio and television programs around the globe. She received the 1998 Handy Award for Contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year and is nominated again in 1999. Marcia has also been nominated for a Grammy and Handy award for her work with Irma Thomas and Tracy Nelson on the album, Sing It.

AUGIE MEYERS - VOCALS, ACCORDIAN
Like so many artists, Augie had to leave home to achieve any type of success. Although he has always had a loyal following on the South Texas and Louisiana club circuit, it wasn’t until he and friend Doug Sahm formed "The Sir Douglas Quintet" that included other musicians with a similar bent for doing their own kind of music that things began to happen for them on the national and international scene. Their extremely popular tours of Scandinavia and Central Europe were instrumental in getting their careers moving forward in the USA. Augie and Doug are still recording and touring together, but they are also recording individually again.

When Augie plays, live or on vinyl, you can expect to hear music delivered with the wide open, charismatic flair and unpretentious style that’s been his trademark for many years. His single, ‘KEP-PA-SO’, released off his 8th solo album, ‘My Main Squeeze’, received nationwide attention which got his cohorts, Doug Sahm, Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez together to form the super Tex-Mex group, The Texas Tornadoes. This group went on to win a Grammy in 1990 for the "Best Mexican-American" group. Augie was inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame in 1991.

RICK TREVINO - VOCALS, GUITAR
With the release of his lively Latin American roots solo album ‘Mi Son’, singer Rick Treviņo takes a break from country music and rediscovers the sounds of his childhood. Treviņo, who’s gained recent notice as one of the featured singers in Los Super Seven, grew up in Austin, Texas, the son of a Tejano musician who played in one of the hottest bands in the region. But he didn’t feel that Tejano music was his: Since he wasn’t fluent in Spanish, understanding the lyrics was difficult. "I was exposed to lots of Latin music, but it wasn’t mine." The young Treviņo preferred the sounds of Top 40 radio.

Nonetheless, Treviņo was drawn to the music, although the attraction was first based on his love of the expressive melodies and not in allegiance to his background. "There are mixed memories for me with Mexican music, since my father had such a strong association with it. But once I start playing it, all of that becomes secondary to the actual bearty of the sounds."

Treviņo’s first foray into Latin roots music arose from his winning association with Los Super Seven, the all-atar group of musicians who’s first recordings including David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos), Flaco Jimenez, Freddy Fender, Tejano star Ruben Ramos and Joe Ely. Don’t be surprised if the singer’s next album is a new hybrid of Latin roots and country music.

CINDY CASHDOLLAR
In a musical career marked by quality and variety, steel guitar and dobro player Cindy Cashdollar has won five Grammy Awards, recorded with leading country roots, folk and jazz artists, and logged countless miles on tour playing with Asleep At The Wheel, Leon Redbone, Beausoleil and others. Her talents can be heard on Bob Dylan’s Grammy winning Album of the Year Time Out of Mind, as well as recordings by Manhattan Transfer, The Dixie Chicks, Dwight Yoakam, George Strait, LeeAnn Womack, Reba McIntire and Willie Nelson among others.

Captivated by Delta blues music at a young age she started out at age 11. An affinity for swing music led Cashdollar to the steel guitar. Relocating to Austin, TX, she also became a busy player in that musical city’s recording scene playing on three critically-acclaimed albums by Austin country legend Don Walser and sessions with Steve James, Rosie Flores and Omar and the Howlers.

Cashdollar continues to forge new directions for steel guitar and dobro in a variety of styles and settings including instructional videos for steel guitar and dobro on Homespun Tapes, and frequently conducts workshops across the nation.

FLOYD DOMINO - PIANOGrammy-winner Floyd Domino’s stellar boogie-woogie and swing has been heard on dozens of #1 radio hits. With a recording resume from George Strait to Herb Ellis to Waylon Jennings to Asleep at the Wheel to Merle Haggard to Willie Nelson to Townes Van Zandt and beyond, Floyd’s piano has been heard all over the world and even beamed up to the space shuttle. NASA beamed George Strait’s Ace in the Hole to the space shuttle Columbia in a wake-up call that featured Floyd’s sparkling boogie-woogie piano solo. Currently, Floyd’s piano is heard every weekday on over 100 radio stations on the Jim Hightower talk radio show, broadcast live from Austin. Floyd also plays or records with Texas favorites Don Walser, Monte Warden, the Texas Playboys, Asleep at the Wheel and many others.

Floyd, a dedicated father and family man, has released 5 children’s albums on his own label, Golliber, that have gotten rave reviews from the national press.

ROCKY MORALES -TENOR SAXAPHONE
Rocky is the heart and soul of the "West Side Horns" of San Antonio. He has achieved legendary status all over the world and continues to thrill audiences wherever he goes. Performance Credits: Doug Sahm, Kim Wilson, Angela Strehli, Lou Ann Barton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert Collins, Augie Meyers, Jackie King,Randy Garibay and many, many others.

DANNY LEVIN - FIDDLE
Danny grew up in the suburbs of Philly and studied cello with Philadelphia Orchestra cellist Francis de Pasquale from 1959-1967, and by the age of 15, was an accomplished chamber musician. He joined up with the swing band Asleep at the Wheel in 1971. By 1972, he had picked up the fiddle and was listening to and playing country music and string jazz, and by 1978, he had won his first Grammy. Danny is now producing and writing advertising commercials with such artists as Johnny Nicholas, Ethel & Methel, Don Walser, Sean Colvin, Leon Raush of the Texas Playboys, Charlie Sexton, Johnny Cash, Sara Hickman and the Leann Rimes "Don’t Mess with Texas" TV commercial.

JOHN RUSSELL MILLS
BARITONE & TENOR SAX
John Mills is one of central Texas’ most in-demand saxophonists and arrangers, covering a complete spectrum of musical styles—jazz, R&B, salsa, classical, rock ’n roll, country, alternative, folk, gospel and more—in concert and in the recording studio. Over his long professional career he has performed, arranged and composed on hundreds of CDs, film/TV soundtracks, and jingles. He holds a Doctorate Degree (DMA) in Composition from UT-Austin, is Director of Jazz Studies and Coordinator of Music Theory at Southwest Texas State Univ. and co-owner of Austin Media Music.