Biography

› Rockin Robin Eig (guitar, vocals)

Robin was first introduced to bluegrass while still living in New York. She is a songwriter who has been influenced by many types of music over the years. She brings her lively vocals as well as a driving rhythm guitar to the Revolution. Her original songs soulfully bring jazz and blues elements that compliment the band's uptempo bluegrass repertoire.

› Matt Aiko McAlear (mandolin, vocals)

Aiko didn't listen to bluegrass until led there through the music of Jerry Garcia. A native of the North East, he spent his youth dreaming of moving west. In 1997, while living in San Francisco, he picked up the mandolin and started playing acoustic music. An early morning festival experience in Telluride, Colorado cemented his passion for bluegrass: after staying up till dawn jamming with folks he had only just met and seeing blood splattered on his mando from the hours of picking, he realized he was in love with the music and the moments it creates. The keeper of the off-beat, Aiko’s hard-driving mandolin playing is a hybrid of styles that are stuck in his head and just won’t get out. Aiko has studied with Radim Zenkl, John McGann and his metronome.

› Tom Widger (bass, vocals)

After Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, a group of survivors led by an upright bass player, Tom Widger, struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job. Tom Widger is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Widger was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Aiko, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Widger must decide whether Aiko has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Widger and Aiko along with Eig, May and J. Po all embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

› Jesse Poteralski (guitar, vocals)

Jesse Poteralski is our flatpicking guitarist extraordinaire. Yet another member of the group who discovered bluegrass music more recently, but offers up some sweet solos as well as great driving rhythm and vocals. He came over from the dark side of Fender Stratocasters, effect pedals and loopers in the summer of 2005 and hasn't touched the stuff since.