Born in Dublin, Bill Blackmore has studied both in Newpark Music Centre and Trinity College Dublin where he received a degree in music in 2004. In 2005 he was selected to be a member of the I.M.C. sponsored 'Intro 05' group, which spent a week touring Ireland under the auspices of American Jazz Guitarist and Berklee College lecturer Rick Peckham. Summer 2007 saw him attend the Banff Centre 'International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music' presided over by renowned trumpet player/composer Dave Douglas. He has been involved in many projects over the years ranging from contemporary classical and jazz to pop and Irish traditional music. Groups that he is currently involved with are Trihornophone, Rebecca Collins, Fuzzy Logic and Redsquare - in addition to this he is the resident Trumpet player at Dublin's weekly jazz spot on Tuesdays 'The Dirty Jazz Club'.

Seán Óg is a performer, composer and bandleader playing a range of woodwind instruments as well as invented instruments and electronics. His music sits somewhere at the crossroads between free improvisation, avant-garde composition, and contemporary jazz. He studied saxophone under Michael Buckley and graduated with a Diploma in Jazz Studies from The London Guildhall School of Music in 2002. Since then he teaches improvisation, jazz idiom and ensemble at Newpark Music Centre. Seán has performed extensively in Europe playing festivals in France, UK, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Brussels. In Ireland he has performed at The Festival of World Cultures, Cork Jazz Festival, Bray Jazz Festival, i & e festival 2007, OUT OF SITE 2006 along with headline gigs at DEAF 2005 and Mór Festival (Damo Suzuki Network). His work has been recorded on CD and CDR for IMC, Humbug, Foxglove and Deserted Village record labels. Outside of leading his own groups, interdisciplinary projects include compositions and performances for Imram Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and various dance productions. In 2006 he was awarded a multi-annual bursary from the Arts Council to work on his approach to solo woodwind improvisation. He is a co-founder of experimental theatre company The Stomach Box and a member of The Deserted Village collective and The Livingroom Project (www.livingroomproject.com).

Kelan Walsh graduated with First Class Honours B.A. In Jazz Performance from Newpark School of Music in 2007. He has been concentrating full-time on the saxophone - both tenor and baritone - for five years now. In that time, he has played with the Phil Ware Trio, Greg Felton, Cormac Kenevey, Ronan and Conor Guilfoyle, Justin Carroll, Sean Carpio, as well as veteran Americans Dave Liebman and Ralph Peterson and Canadian Rick Peckham. In 2006, Kelan toured Europe as resident sax player with The Commitments and is a member of indigenous groups The Jalapeño Diplomacy - playing the music of Tim Berne; the Axis Big Band, led by the saxophonist Ciaran Wilde; K Baz Funf; Sun Rocket; the Ariel Hernandez Quintet; Croupier; the Martin Staunton Band; Sean Maynard Smith's group honouring Ornette Coleman; Loopstick; reggae band Aligator and, Seán Óg's Trihornophone. Kelan will travel to Siena in 2007 to represent Newpark and Ireland in the International Association of Schools of Jazz, along with twenty five other musicians chosen from the world's best and brightest.

Dennis Cassidy began his musical career while attending Newpark Music Centre in Dublin, where he studied jazz drumming and improvisation under Connor Guilfoyle. He graduated in 2004 with a diploma in jazz performance and since then has established himself on the Dublin scene in both the mainstream and improvised idioms, performing and recording with many groups and artists such as Trihornophone, Nina Hynes, Bop 5, Borndays, Fashionista, Redsquare and hip-hop MC, Ophelia. Dennis has played extensively around Ireland and in 2004 performed at the Cork Jazz Festival, venturing further afield in 2006 to play at the Wilshire E. Bell Theatre in Los Angeles at a ceremony honouring Irish writing in film and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has also performed at the Festival of World Cultures and The Dublin Fringe Festival both in 2007. Since 2005 Dennis has been composing and performing experimental electronic music, in 2006 co-wrote his first film score with long-time collaborator Keith Lyndsey for the short "Stuck" by Orla O' Rourke.

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