Naryan Padmanabha
Born into a family with roots extending from India to Ireland, Naryan’s interests in music started at the early age of 8. He started playing Western instruments like drum set and guitar. On these instruments, Naryan created music ranging from punk rock to folk and many places in between.
During his teen years, Naryan began exploring his roots by traveling to India and soon learned the styles of Classical Indian music. Through his travels, he learned to borrow concepts and styles from many world traditions. His main instruments are hammered dulcimer (santoor), sitar, and hand percussion. Naryan has performed with and/or shared bills with Max Creek, Rob Wasserman, Toubab Krewe, The Heavy Pets, Consider the Source, Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident), Steve Molitz (Particle), andFamily FUNKtion and the Sitar Jams. He has also recorded with the world renowned North Indian Classical vocalists V.J. Kichlu and South Indian percussionist T.S. Nandakumar. Naryan has performed on over 15 independently released recordings and has toured the United States and Canada as a performer.
Naryan is also the founder of epochmusic, located in Western New York. The label is dedicated to refined sounds and celebrates diversity through world traditions, electronics and all things unique. For more information, visit www.epochmusic.com and www.sitarjams.com.
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Joe Rozler
Joe Rozler is a singer/instrumentalist in Buffalo, NY who is unaccustomed to referring to himself in the third person.
Grew up listening to The Beatles and Stockhausen. Went to music school.
Performed with many ensembles and artists; some famous, some not-so-famous, and a couple fictitious.
Written/arranged/recorded a couple truckloads of music for hire: advertising jingles, industrial videos, music for video games, and a couple soap opera themes.
Will most likely keep doing the same.
Dave Ruch
Dave Ruch is a full-time musician/performer/music researcher/teaching artist who sings and plays mandolin, guitar, banjo, octave mandolin, bones, spoons, jaw harp, hambone and probably some other things too. For more information, visit www.daveruch.com
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Elizabeth Switzer
Elizabeth Switzer is a hybrid media artist, designer, writer and independent curator who currently resides in Buffalo, NY. She is the former Director of the Rochester Contemporary Art Center and now works as a faculty member in the Department of Fine Art at Villa Maria College and is the Studio Art Galleries and College Art Collection Director at Canisius College. Her interest in art began in childhood, growing up in a working class family in the rural town of Sodus, NY. She received her Master’s of Fine Art from the University at Buffalo in May of 2004, and is a recent graduate of the NYFA MARK program. Recently her painting, sculptural and installation work has been shown in exhibitions in and around The Upstate New York State area, at the Burchfield – Penney Art Center, Studio Hart, Olean Public Library, Community Arts Partnership: Ithaca, and the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, among others, and she was included in the Hallwalls – PUSH Buffalo benefit auction, Buffalo on The Bowery at the Charles Bank Gallery last fall. Her current curatorial project, (re)threads is premiered at the Cedar Arts Center in Corning, NY last April. She’s also runs the Robot Holiday Art Sale and Raffle. For more information, visit crudecrafts.blogspot.com/
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Jim Whitford
Jim Whitford is a Buffalo Music Hall of Famer and sideman to the stars (Peter Case, Tarbox Ramblers, Gurf Morlix, Linda McRae), For more information, visitwww.canalstreetstringband.com
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