(featured July 31, 2004)

You never know what people do in their spare time.   I met Sydney Thompson numerous times at Literary Coalition meetings, year after year, never suspecting that she was the lead singer in a rock and roll band.

SYDNEY THOMPSON , who writes the band's lyrics, is a poet, the Editor of Fireweed Literary Journal, and program coordinator for the Center for Excellence in Writing at Portland State University.   In addition, she is a self-defense trainer. And she volunteers as a teacher of songwriting at the Rock Camp for Girls.

ADAM ELLIOTT , Smidgen guitarist, is an electrician and father of two young boys.

JASON BUXRUDE on bass, is a student at Portland State University.

KEN YATES on guitar, is a barr-ista (a person who makes coffee) and has a BA in music.

ROBYN HERCEY of The Lonesomes will be filling in tonight for Jonno Paltz on drums, as Jonno is due to be a new father any moment now.