Nancy Brady Cunningham is a published poet and author of five books of ritual: Feeding the Spirit, I Am Woman by Rite, Tarot Celebrations, Snow Melting in a Silver Bowl, and A Book of Women's Altars. She has been the featured poet at many Boston venues, and has performed her poetry at Boston's First Night 2000 in Big Night at the Bookhouse, held at the Boston Public Library.

Her international experience includes a reading at Shake- speare and Company Book-

store, Paris, France, and another at the Poet's Picnic on the Seine, also in Paris, arranged by Beat poet Ted Joans. In Greece, Nancy presented her original perform- ance piece entitled "Sappho of Lesbos" as part of a workshop at The Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual, held on the Isle of Lesbos in July of 1999. The following September, Nancy again presented the Sappho piece in Toronto, Canada, to a Unitarian Universalist Women's group.

Mike Morin has studied African percussion with Babatunde Olatunji and Abdoul Doumbia, and frame drums with Layne Redmond. He has also done numerous marimba workshops with Michelle Kaminsky.

Mike currently plays with the band Treelyne; he has also played congas and other percussion instruments with various local bands over the

years. Mike performed with Mickey Hart and others in the grand finale tribute to Babatunde Olatunji in 2001, and played two performances in New York with Michael Hinton, for Broadway's "Miss Saigon".

As for his spoken word projects, he provides a wide variety of percussion for the Iyanu theatre troupe, which also includes Nancy Brady Cunningham.