Catharine Clune, violinist and Music Director, woke from a dream in early '98 knowing she wanted to start a tango group, and founded Tango No. 9. A ten-year veteran of Club Foot Orchestra, she now leads its off-shoot, Orchestra Nostalgico. She wrote and arranged a portion of the music recorded and performed by Club Foot for the 90's remake of CBS Saturday cartoon Felix The Cat. Her soundtrack for the short film A Rat Fairy Tale won an award at the Short Attention Span Film Festival. In addition to performing and composing, she has recorded with jazz based group Club Foot, free improv groups such as The Molecules, Speed the Parting Guest, Crawling with Tarts, and rock groups Steve Kirk Pop and Zircus.



Greg Stephens, trombonist and composer, has spent the last several years performing and recording with the As Is Brass Band, Extra Action Marching Band, and Big Lou's Polka Casserole. The founder of 20th Century Forum, a non-profit group dedicated to promoting concerts of modern composers, Greg has also performed with Berkeley Opera, Berkeley Contemporary Opera, City Summer Opera, and Bella Musica.  He has performed with Eric McFadden, Stymie And The Pimp Jones Love Orchestra, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and The Klezmatics, among others.



Isabel Douglass performs on accordion in a variety of styles including tango, French musette, Balkan dance styles, klezmer, early jazz, and experimental music. She is founder of the group Les Croque-Notes, a quartet specializing in the music of George Brassens. Isabel has worked with a variety of Bay Area ensembles, including The Japonize Elephants, Eric McFadden, Rupa and the April Fishes, Amaldecor, Kugelplex, and Faun Fables. Recent dance and theater groups she has collaborated with are Dandelion Dance Theater, Roccoco Risque, and Yuko Kaseki.



Joshua Raoul Brody, pianist, spends most of his time accompanying improv groups (True Fiction Magazine, Bay Area Theatersports), actors (Josh Kornbluth, Merle Kessler), and musicians (Mr. Lucky, Orchestra Nostalgico). He makes most of his money composing for film (the independent feature Suckerfish), video (MTV's Winter Steele), and multimedia (Sony's Tiny Tank). As an accompanist, Joshua Raoul Brody has worked with nearly everyone in the world - comedians Lily Tomlin and Robin Williams, film legends from Philip Kaufman to Felix the Cat, singers Tom Waits, Sir Bob Geldof and Florence Henderson, rock stars Joe Satriani and Nina Hagen, and unlumpable phenomena like The Residents, the Ethel Merman Memorial Choir, and Those Darn Accordions!. Mr. Brody has been nominated for a Bay Area Critics' Circle award for best score, won (with the Rick & Ruby Show) several Cabaret Gold Awards, and in 1991 was awarded the Bay Guardian's first GOLDIE award. His many other accomplishments and name-drops are chronicled at www.jraoul.org.