Dennis DeSapri [Vocalist] has been winning over audiences since his teens, when he backed up the likes of Chubby Checker. Since those days, Dennis has performed all kinds of music, including fronting Backseat Romance, an original Top 40 dance band in the early 1980's. One of Dennis' fondest memories is sharing the stage with the great Sam Butera at the Milwaukee Italian Festival in 1995. Joe Hunter is a highly regarded and in-demand jazz pianist. Joe plays with legendary Cleveland tenor saxophonist Ernie Krivda, and has shared the spotlight with many of the biggest names in jazz, including Tito Puente and Buddy DiFranco. His jazz trio recenlty played at Severance Hall as part of the Jazz on the Circle series. Joe, along with Mark Addison, was also a founding member of the groundbreaking and popular '80's Cleveland rock band Nation of One. Don Better spent seventeen years in Los Angeles as an accomplished jazz, classical and pop guitarist. Don played lead guitar for well-known blues band Pacific Gas & Electric in the early 80's. Now a Clevelander, Don teaches guitar at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Tri-C East. Don also used his musical talents to produce Cleveland rock band Odd Girl Out's well-regarded live album. Trombonist Andy Hunter is currently a student at Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, finishing work in Jazz Trombone and Chinese Literature. His instrument has brought him performing around most of the Midwestern USA and New York, as well as countries in Europe and Asia. Andy was born and raised along the AuSable River in Grayling, Michigan. He currently resides in Oberlin, and can be seen around the Cleveland area with Ernie Krivda, Sammy DeLeon, the Dukes of Wail, and leading small groups at various venues. Saxophonist and Arranger Dick Ingersoll trained at Ohio State University and music has taken him literally across the globe. Today he finds himself drawn back home to Cleveland where he plays in various bands, including Ernie Krivda's Fat Tuesday Big Band and the Dukes of Wail. He has performed in ensembles backing up such artists as Johnny Mathis, Louis Belllson and David Sanborn. Tommy Edwards, a highly respected veteran Cleveland drummer has played a wide variety of musical venues, from the early days playing the strip clubs in Cleveland's Short Vincent area, to a live national television appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Tommy has also appeared with such stars as Johnny Ray, Johnny Desmond and Al Alberts of the Four Aces, to name a few.	Dennis DeSapri	Joe Hunter
	Don Better
	Andy Hunter
	Dick Ingersoll	Tommy Edwards

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