Andy Stein - As lead guitarist for Inhouse from 1994-1999, Stein toured between South Florida and California as the band courted offers from major recording labels. When its regional success didn't quite translate into a label signing, Inhouse disbanded, giving the New Jersey native time to contemplate a solo career. Ten years after his former band's final CD, Stein released his 2008 solo debut, 'Strings of Consciousness.' Entirely instrumental and improvised, the disc features the influence of the guitarist's wide range of improvisational heroes, from Miles Davis to the Grateful Dead. He's currently recordingits pop/rock follow-up, 'Unclassifiable,' which will mark his vocal debut and feature compositions like his ballad "Out of Hand."

Native Floridian, Bill Meredith, started a career as a freelance journalist in 1992, seven years after doing the same in music as a drummer, percussionist and vocalist. Aside from occasional sportswriting, those two careers have pretty much been linked ever since. In 2006, he opened for B.B. King in Florida with blues band The Hellhounds, a few months after his second interview with Chick Corea (the third was for this issue's feature on Corea and Bela Fleck). Meredith has also written for the "Palm Beach Post", "Jazziz", "City Link" and "Closer", and his various bands have opened for Ani DiFranco, Johnny Winter, Warren Hill, Firefall and the Outlaws.

Cameo Barbershop Quartet - Barbershop quartet vocals are alive and well in the hands of Cameo. The four-year-old vocal quartet features lead singer Paul Stone, a semi-retired cantor and choral director for 40 years. Tenor vocalist Howard Kesselman has experience not only in music, but also in radio, recording and television (as a promoter for Mike Douglas). Baritone Mort Tamres' father was a tenor for the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City, and bass vocalist Ed Hart has rounded out the quartet since retiring from insurance management with a branch of John Hancock. Hardly the retiring types, the members of Cameo breathe new life into standards like "America the Beautiful," and perform at several Inspirit facilities.

Jason Colannino- Raised in New Jersey, where he became a Harry Chapin fanatic, Boynton Beach singer/guitarist Jason Colannino can now cover the entire Chapin songbook. The same goes for Neil Young, James Taylor, Paul Simon, or Crosby, Stills & Nash (with or without Young). But the chameleonic Colannino, who can play in settings from solo to quartet to suit any situation, is also a songwriter with two CDs to his credit. Colannino performed with a full band in 1999 at SunFest, the annual festival in West Palm Beach, after the release of his debut recording, Since 1969. His latest, 2004's Piece of the Sun, features everything from full-band and solo tunes to "Easy To Say Goodbye," his duet with violinist Ginny Meredith.

Marg Chauvin - Marg has had a harp group named Heartstrings for 13 years, performing all over Florida and through the Southeast at folk festivals and renaissance fairs. She also holds a certificate as a practitioner of Music for Healing and Transitions.

Night Music (featuring Michael Moses) - Grammy-nominated six years ago for his percussion work on Peter Kater's CD Red Moon (in the "Best New Age Album" category), Michael Moses is also a gifted guitarist in his duo Night Music, with vocalist Gayle Coursol. The two Lake Worth residents put new twists on jazz standards like "I Like You," with Moses occasionally adding backing vocals and Coursol performing dance routines. Both also add sporadic percussion with Night Music, a group that formed out of Moses' quintet Rivers of Time. Coursol is also a percussionist, vocalist and dancer with that group, which was featured in Global Rhythms magazine in April of 2007 for winning its "World Music Song Competition."

Pat Geschwind - Jazz guitarist Pat Geschwind often helps patients endure chemotherapy by playing as a soloist at outpatient units for Inspirit. But he's also versatile enough to perform in duets with bassist Bruce Freeland, or lead a jazz trio - something he often did with Freeland and Harry Johnson, before the outstanding area drummer succumbed to esophageal cancer in April. The Lake Worth guitarist specializes in jazz standards, many of which originally became familiar with vocals, like "All of Me," "Night and Day," "Moon River" and "The Girl From Ipanema." But in Geschwind's hands, even a memorable vocal melody like Frank Sinatra's delivery of "Fly Me to the Moon" needs only his two hands.

Rod MacDonald & Big Brass Bed - MacDonald has law and history degrees; was a correspondent for Newsweek magazine during the Watergate era, and became one of the most prolific Greenwich Village singer/songwriters of the 1980s. Since moving to South Florida, he's become the most-represented artist of that era on Smithsonian Folkways' "Fast Folk" series (with 27 songs), and started a band to honor one of his New York predecessors, Bob Dylan. Big Brass Bed formed in 2002, and released the CD 'A Few Dylan Songs,' one of which is the update of "Subterranean Homesick Blues." The singing guitarist also has nine solo CDs; tours the U.S. and Europe, and teaches songwriting and musical history courses at local universities.