Grizzled old Hoot Night veteran Dag Juhlin has provided a curious blend of humor and discomfort to the show since its earliest days as "The Old Gold Cigarette Hootenanny Radio Program". Now entering his 150th year as leader of Chicago pop treasures The Slugs, Dag spent much of the 90's as guitarist for Joel Feldman & The Giggletones, which later went on to become club/stadium favorites, Poi Dog Pondering.

Photo credit: Matt Carmichael.

Zack Kantor plays drums and writes a zillion songs for the band Frisbie. Zack is engaging a rebirth, discovering powers both beautiful and frightening. He may yet become the first man to shirk the corporeal mandate, to live in abstract, as pure music. Zack says the “f” word more than you do. He also enjoys a good German beer, or a Budweiser tallboy, or whatever you’re buying. And dude, can he bum a cigarette?

JACQUELINE KRUPKA was first anointed by the muse Euterpe as one of the DEL FRIDGIDAIRES, late of the lamented Practical Theatre Co. Since that time, she has been seen at the concerts of JONI MITCHELL, along with PAT METHENY, toured in her mind with ERIC CLAPTON, and was dragged by her mother to a very special tent in Massachusetts to bear witness to the HORMONEFEST that is Tom Jones. In a career spanning almost twenty years, she has also purchased the music of ANNIE LENNOX, R.E.M., and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT. No stranger to the world of film, she currently can be seen owning the soundtracks to DANCES WITH WOLVES (anniversary edition) and SHREK. Ms. Krupka has recently purchased some Norwegian Folk Music for a children’s show project, and is a founding member of THE PLUNGING NECKLINES, A MIGHTY FYNE PAIRE Irish Cabaret, and the trio JOIE de DIVA. She would like to "thank" JOHN TESH for not "signing" the "restraining order."