Ronan Delisle is a guitarist and educator based in Seattle, WA. Already active as a composer and improviser in Seattle during his teenage years, Ronan attended the University of North Texas on scholarship where he graduated with a BM in Jazz Performance in 2014. During his time at UNT, Ronan was mentored by guitarists Fred Hamilton and Richard McClure and was active as a bandleader and accompanist in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Since returning to his hometown of Seattle in 2015, Ronan has been active in the city’s thriving improvised music and rock scenes and has enjoyed a steady studio of dedicated students since that time. Ronan is Teaching Assistant in the Jazz Studies department at the University of Washington.

Carlos Snaider is a guitarist, percussionist, improvisor, composer, writer, and educator based in Seattle, WA.  Carlos takes his grounding the everyday as the point of departure and source of vitality in his work. With a tendency to perceive music as any way humans create harmony within and among themselves, he is interested in creating platforms for individual and collective expression of the here-and-now from a space of joy and alertness.  Having integrated various creative mediums—music, theatre, movement, poetry, scholarship and the “living arts”—into his personal process, Carlos works to reflect the greatness of each and every person back upon them.