- Jami Roberts
Folk Music Like it Ought To Be:
Over-enthusiastic!
Who's in the band?John Andrews - Bass and stuff
John is the newest member of the Trio. (Yeah, we know: there are now four people in the trio. Go Figure.) His mother, Margot, played the accordion and encouraged John to practice, giving him a choice to "either weed the hedge or practice the accordion." John learned the bass fiddle and tuba in high school so he could join the kids who were having fun. He spent two years with The Proclamation folk group while at Georgia Tech. He is married to his childhood sweetheart, Sherry.
Neal Collier - Guitar, Harmonica, and stuff
Chuck Kupferschmidt - Guitar, Banjo, and stuff
It all started when one of Chuck's brothers came home from college with a banjo he'd won in a poker game. The banjo was soon traded for a guitar to which Chuck was instantly drawn. He also listened a lot to his brother's folk music records, some by the Kingston Trio. It was the mid-sixty's; the folk boom was in full bloom. His first guitar was purchased from Montgomery Wards and an upgrade soon followed. In the 1980's he took up the clawhammer banjo after seeing Grandpa Jones on HeeHaw. Having been born in Chicago and raised with mid-western sensibilities, Chuck is, fortunately, sufficiently well grounded to deal with all the banjo related abuse he receives (it's a lot, too!) from his Trio buds.
John Loven - Guitar, Dobro, and relatively little other stuff
As a teen, John was a jazz fan. He arrived at Swarthmore College playing trumpet and valve trombone. Promptly experiencing the loathing and derision reserved for those who practice the trombone in a dormitory, he switched to guitar. John and his wife Sandy produced and hosted The Joyful Noise Coffeehouse in the Collegeville, PA area from 2002 to 2005. It was there that John, Chuck and Neal met and the Tungsten Trio was born.(See Blame.)