On stage, clad in black shawls and cascading tresses, Marissa Nadler performs with an intricate finger-style on the guitar, ukele, and 5-string banjo. Yet it is often her voice that is a shuttle towards another time, a soprano reverberating with melancholy and longing. Marissa's music is unique and gorgeous, skillfully hinting at the songs of the sea, the haunting chansons of maidens, the cowboy ditties of ranchers, and the funerary processions of mourners.

Jesse Sparhawk is a multi-instrumentalist and composer specializing in guitar, electric bass, harp, and mandolin. He has toured nationally and internationally as accompanist and band member with Greg Weeks and Timesbold. Jesse's solo album "Palmaria Palmata" was self released in 2005, and his original acoustic guitar composition "Light Cycle / Tetrahedra" is set for release June 2006 on the Imaginational Anthem Volume II compilation on Tompkins Square Records.