Aaron Abrahamson Cote picked up steel pan in the Caribbean while working as a drummer on cruise lines.  His music career has taken him coast-to-coast, as well as to Europe, Africa, and extensively throughout the Caribbean.  He has released hundreds of compositions with Panoramic View and The Sunshine Melodies, and regularly performs with The Island Time Steel Band and The Copacetics, among others.  Cote has been featured on recordings with Dr. Ring-Ding, The Ska-Jazz Messengers (Liquidator/Flower Records), Agent Jay of The Slackers, Vinny Nobile from Bim Skala Bim (Stubborn Records), The Attractors (Jump Up Records), among others.  His performance highlights include Bobby McFerrin (Don’t Worry, Be Happy), Glenn Kotche of Wilco, and The Skatalites.  Aside from an active performance and recording career, Cote teaches steel pan, percussion, drum set, and beginner piano.   Mr. Cote holds his master’s degree in music performance from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Erika is a former Champion Irish Step Dancer. She started dancing when she was five, and obtained formal training locally under Deirdre Goulding and DeDe Golden, and in Ireland under Tony Nolan. She loves that she can pass along her skills and traditions to her three daughters.

Erika has performed with several groups, including The Saw Doctors, Black 47, The Wolftones, and at the session at Patrick's Pub. For years she taught a group of women in Providence called the Celtic Daughters, who would perform at the Providence St. Patrick's Day Parade, as well as young ladies at Rhode Island Training School.

Eunice has been practicing and studying the art of Belly Dance since 2001. She has an extensive background in performance arts. During her undergraduate career, she studied and trained in various dance and theater courses including Acting, Improvisation, Tai Chi, Flamenco from the renowned Andrea del Conte, Modern Dance, Bharatanatyam (Classical Indian dance), Hip Hop, and Afro-Caribbean Dance.

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While being a part of the Middle Eastern Dance Academy of Connecticut (MDA), she trained as well as performed for several events including opening acts for concerts including Lebanese superstar, Ragheb Alama, on June 2019 and Iraqi superstar, Saif Nabeel, on March 2020. Eunice was also one of the featured dancers in Jillian’s Belly Dance Evolution Experience for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz production show on June 2019.

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Eunice continues to study in the different dance styles of the Middle East including Egyptian, Lebanese, Iraqi, and Turkish as well as trained with the most reputable dancers/instructors in the dance.

Amy is a Rhode Island native who has been teaching, judging, and performing for the past seventeen years. She started her training with the iconic Teresa Landry and Donna Carter at the age of three and has been dancing ever since. At the age of eleven she found herself mesmerized by a group of performers dancing to a style of dance she had never seen before--clogging. Within no time she was clogging her way across the country and performing at festivals, conventions, and anywhere there was hard wood floors. Amy has been continuing her education through multiple dance conventions and tap classes throughout the year. While Amy loves being a professional performer, her love for teaching has been her main focus for the last seventeen years. She is a mother of two and looks forward to the exciting future and to more growth in the art arts and life!

When Jude retired about a decade ago, it was time for her to get back to making a joyful noise with strings and voice. The strings could have been on the violin she had played in high school, but simultaneous vocalizing was somewhat uncomfortable. They could have been on the guitars she had played as an undergraduate, but the guitars were feeling heavy and cumbersome and, frankly, they were a bit too loud. 

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"Life On Four Strings," a 2012 documentary about Jake Shimabukuro, pointed to another source of strings - the 'ukulele! Jude has always been one to value options, and this little set of strings welcomes any flavor of music: classical, jazz, country, rock, hip hop, etc. - and whatever rates as "popular" in any time or place. So, most of the time she concurs with the message in Jeff Saxon's song, "A Ukulele's All I Need."