Sue McKenzie (saxophones) plays in a variety of contexts both in jazz. world, improvising and classical realms (recording for Delphian Records). She was guest artist at the RADD Jazz Series, University of Wisconsin River Falls, USA (2019) and other recent gigs include the 606 Club / Jazz Cafe (London), West Holts Stage (Glastonbury) as well as with Australian DJ HDTM. She works regularly with the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and recently wrote “Faramach Suite” (for saxophone sextet and percussion) which received its' world premiere in Croatia, 2018, featuring players from Costa Rica and Canada.
Paul Elwood (banjo) is active in the realms of experimental, bluegrass, and jazz. In 2015 he played on a premiere by experimental music pioneer Alvin Lucier and has collaborated with guitarist Jean-Marc Montera, legendary composer Christian Wolff, percussionist Famoudou Don Moye, guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, cellist Hank Roberts, French saxophonist Raphaël Imbert, and the Callithumpian Consort of the New England Conservatory, Zeitgeist, bluegrass legend John Hartford, and pipa player Min Xiao-Fen, among many others.
Susan Mayo (cello)
is active in the classical world, playing with the Wichita Symphony, but also with the Switchgrass String Quartet, one of the only improvising string quartets in town, and MHM, an alternative vocal/string trio. She runs Flint Hills Counterpoint an ecology/arts non-profit and is active as a composer. Her latest project, which premiered in September of 2023, was composing and performing for the environmental documentary "Reclamation Meridian" a multi-year endeavor with filmmaker Cyan Meeks. Among others, they were awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Place Making Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Anonymous Was a Women Environmental Art Grant for the project.