Kelvin Fosberry

Arguably the best left handed banjo player in the UK. He was a founder member of the Council for the Rehabilitation of Endemic Traditional Instrument Nomads, (CRETIN) and gives workshops at annual general meetings.

Being left handed, he has been forced to build his own banjos. This has enabled him to include other useful technologies, such as flatulence dissipaters, which Terry attests have proved useless.  

Barry Martyn

Barry's smouldering good looks deflect attention from his enormous hands, which flail deftly over the neck of his mandolin. As the band's sound engineer. he is capable of achieving feedback on any sound system in the known universe. Not a vocalist, but the one note he can sing, the band hopes to utilize for harmonies one day.

Extremely photogenic, he has been know to wear lipstick in band photo shoots.

Terry McCarthy

The band's front man and tireless organiser. Terry's sense of the unexpected extends from cough sweet supplies to turning up to a gig at least 24 hours from the start with at least 3 guitars. An avid studier of the world's great guitar pickers, he eagerly awaits the day when the band allows him to replace the anchor of his rhythm guitar work with a break or two.

Ron Nesbitt

Exponent of the Nesbitt 'thrap', the only bass player known to have mastered this technique. Ron makes all of the band's outfits, being one of the few plumbers to turned to dressmaking. Among his many impressive achievements in his younger, fitter days, was his reign as Tupperware champion of Woolwich, after managing to keep a bacon sandwich warm and fresh for 72 hours. To quote Terry, "we worked out how he kept it warm, but goodness knows how it stayed fresh!"

Rick Townend

A virtuoso on all the bluegrass instruments, Rick mainly plays the fiddle with Grassroots. He learned to play and sing jazz, classical, folk, bluegrass and old-time American music while at Sevenoaks School, Kent, and formed the UK's first school bluegrass band the Echo Mountain Boys in 1963.

In 2003 Rick Townend was voted by the members of the British Bluegrass Music Association to be in the British Bluegrass Hall of Honour for his work playing and promoting bluegrass music.