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Tracy Hui - Rangshar Tracy Hui is an improvisor/composer/guitarist living in Oakland CA.  He began his long addiction to musicking  as a young child at home.  He has lived and played in many localities in protean formations often unrecognizable from previous incarnations.  He has also studied/played/observed intently with/about/(   ) a plethora of musical entities and sat at the feet of many masters.   He has a deep commitment to the process of realizing a better society and realizing in itself through a persistent practice and theoretical searching.   He is actively musicking with youths in the communities he serves expressing indignation, joy, suffering, love and collectivity.   He will musick with anyone who asks.

Nick Obando - Nick Obando is a saxophonist and a Bay Area native. His path to music came at a very young age when discovering a saxophone in his family’s closet. That journey began with symphonic music all the way through college where he studied jazz at a southern California State University. Moving back to Oakland he began to educate youth through different mediums. Obando also continues to be a student emerging himself in his Filipino culture by studying and teaching traditional folk music. Working in free improvisation he makes sure to keep a deep root in blues and R&B which will always be his first influence and love.

Marshall Trammell - Raised in Oahu, Hawaii, Marshall Trammell's utilizes a Multi-Aesthetic approach to Improvisation as a framework for his development as a percussionist. His other projects include: (film) Decolonizing the Imagination: An Arts Practicum; (curation) Heavy Discipline: Duos and Interviews Music Series, The Displacement Project and Orbits: an cognitive embodiment video project; (research) Oakland Tenderness Project, a mutual aid, alternative currency and participatory research pilot project; and (composition) TTM-H, a Creative Music trio and RotorCraft: a Solo Project.