Quintin was born in Taylor, TX in 1971. When he was 10 years old, he began playing drums for his father's Czech polka band, Eddie Ray and the Polka Dots. In the early 90s, he studied music at Temple Jr College. Quintin worked as a sound engineer and saxophonist for...

I grew up in a Boston family that loved music, with lots of time spent singing together, and started piano at 6 and trumpet at 9. I moved to New Orleans in 2007 “for one year” but whoops, I’m still here! 10 years ago, I started working at the institution known as Pat...

Lacey Troutman is a writer, singer, and dueling piano player living in New Orleans, Louisiana. When she was five Lacey’s parents bought a 1912 Beckwith Piano and put it in the library. The sellers threw in a pair of old roller skates but Lacey was more interested in...

Karin Danger is a veteran singer, songwriter and comedy performer from Melbourne, Australia. In her 29 years of stage experience, she has performed on four continents, in venues from boats to tents to theatres to stadiums to a royal command performance. Karin...

There have been many hobbies and interests that have come and gone in my life, but the one constant has always been music. Some of my earliest memories involve kindly asking my mother “Tape Please” in her green Subaru on the way to and from school, the public pool,...

Starting as a wee child, I was constantly smacking my hands on the family piano. My mom eventually put me into piano lessons at age five, figuring that if I was going to hit a bunch of piano keys, some of them should probably be the right notes. I studied classical...