Caryn Cziriak ~ The founder and Artistic Director of the ensemble, Caryn has been involved in music for most of her life, primarily as a vocalist. She began playing hand drums in 1997 and has been hooked ever since. Caryn facilitates community drum and chant circles and teaches drumming and rhythm workshops and classes in the BuxMont and Philadelphia area. She also directs the women's vocal ensemble "Inchantations".

Jim Davidson ~ Jim started drumming in the 50's during the beatnik era. He returned to drumming again in '94 when he started making drums and percussion instruments. The djembe, conga and darbouka are his favorite drums now. Jim plays for the delight of the drum pulse and the rhythmic entrainment of the group. The old Rumi poem tells it best; Drumsound rises on the air, it's throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come, this is the way."

Pat McLaughlin ~ Pat has enjoyed singing most of her life and has played guitar in the past. She has been a member of the Bucks County Folk Song Society since 1995 and has sung with various folk singers and songwriters in the area. Pat joined us as a vocalist in the Fall of 2003 and after starting African drumming classes has become one of our resident drummers.

Bill Rosebrock ~ Bill began drumming with the Titusville Drum & Bugle Corps and his junior high orchestra in the early 1960's. He got hooked on African drumming at a Babatunde Olatunji concert in upstate New York in 1968. He has since studied with Ghanaian master drummer Maxwell Kofi Donkor in Bethlehem, Shawnee and Stroudsburg PA, and studied drumming and dancing with the Kekeli Cultural Troupe in the Volta Region of Ghana during a 3-month visit as a volunteer teacher in Spring 2007.

Jes Savrin ~ Jes first began drumming in 1991 and has studied in Korkobite, Ghana, West Africa. His past musical experience includes playing the viola, with notable perfomances at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.

Evan Towle ~ Evan has been involved in music for over 20 years, including experience singing in a capella groups, choirs, chamber ensembles, and singing folk music and playing guitar. After a vacation to Cape Breton in 2001, he learned to play the Great Highland Bagpipes and currently plays with the Bucks Caledonian Pipe Band. He began playing djembe at a conference in 2004, and was immediately taken by the conversations that drums can have with one another.