Jesse Greist - guitar, voice, drums, didgeridoo, flutes and mandolin
on the cd:
Julia McConahay: backing vocals, keyboards and violin
Karl Wicklund: backing vocals
Influences
Manu Chao, Richard Shindell, Maldita Vecindad, Ani Di Franco, Dar Williams, Lila Downs, Indigo girls, and especially Michael Franti/Spearhead.
Elementary school teacher by day, intrepid song writer/singer by night, I make my way through the sea of words to find esoteric lyrical gems. I write and sing in English and Spanish primarily, but delve into other languages as well. Most of my music is written for guitar and voice, but I am regularly accompanied by a host of others including vocalists, percussionists, mandolin, guitar, didgeridoo, violin and saxophone.
Soy un maestro durante el dia, y musico por las noches. En el mar oscuro de palabras yo busco diamontes de letra y los traigo a la gente. Escribo y canto en ingles y espanol principalmente, pero uso otras idiomas tambien. La mayoria de mis canciones son para guitarra, pero regularmente tengo otros musicos invitados en mis conciertos que tocan percusion, voz, guitarra, mandolin, didgeridoo, violin, y saxofono.
