Jack Herranen (see above)
Jake Wagner (mandolin) and Kate Lester-Wagner (vocals) currently reside in Kansas City where they are parents and teachers.
Mike West (banjo) is a musician, recording engineer, and producer based in Lawrence, Kansas. He and Katie Euliss (stand-up and washtub bass, vocals) are parents and founders of the musical group Truckstop Honeymoon. In her spare time, Katie makes homemade soap from squirrel fat and other fine ingredients.
T.J. Jones is an ecologist, multi-instrumentalist, and recording engineer based in Johnson City, Tennessee. When he’s not making music, T.J keeps an eye on the evolutionary activities of matriarchal spider colonies.
Tom Marron is New Orleans’ hardest working acoustic musician, harmonica player, fiddler, vocalist, and sideman extraordinaire.
Sinead “Rudy” Rudden and Ann “Nellie” Nelson are musicians, songwriters, and vocalists who have been harmonizing since their college days in Dublin.
Influences
children...the land...manifestations of rebellion wherever they exist...finely tuned instruments...moonshine...
Jack Herranen is a poet/folksinger from eastern Tennessee.
The Ninth Ward Conspiracy is an acoustic music collective founded in New Orleans in the summer of 2004, in the lower Ninth Ward in the former recording studio of Mike West and Katie Euliss known as the Ninth Ward Pickin' Parlor. They are now located in Lawrence, Ks. where the Conspiracy came together, in August 2008, to take a crack at their third recording. Their first two records are "To Fan the Flames of Discontent; The Living Songs of Joe Hill & The Wobblies", and "Beneath the Killing Floor", and album of originals penned by Herranen and fleshed out by the Conspiracy.
