Vocals, Keyboard, Bass, Accordion
Peter has been a performer in the greater Boston area for over 25 years. For the last 10 years, he played bass on the Boston bar circuit with the indie rock band the Rockmores, and also supports singer-songwriter Michael Boezi on bass and background vocals. Previously, he was Music Director and performer at the Improv Asylum, and co-founder of Alarm Clock Theater Company, which put on several successful plays, including his original musical Duplex. Peter has performed on over 20 professionally-produced albums, and has supported such acts as Chris and Meredith Thompson, Blue Horizon and Winterboy. He recently musically directed and performed piano in Los Encendidos, a tribute to the Cuban music that is a core part of his heritage. Peter has a genius for digital animation. He's the mad (digital) scientist who created our mascot, Dr. Sigmund Squeak!
Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Flute, Trashcan
Drawing from deep ties to Irish and American roots music and a background in classical flute performance, Jasmine has spent over three decades performing in bands in New York and Boston, singing lead and harmony and playing flute, guitar, banjo, bodhràn, tin whistle, and trashcan bass. Starting from small NYC venues with “ethnobillies” Zot’s Dream, she went on to perform as backup singer/ dancer/ flutist with 11-piece Japanese go-go band Gaijin A Go-Go at Brooklyn Botanic Gardens’ Sakura Festival, Central Park’s Japan Day festival, and Sweetwater Music Hall in Northern California, as well as at the Brooklyn Americana Festival and at Cambridge MA's Club Passim with bluegrass/western swing band, Gin Daisy. Also in the Boston area she has performed in bluegrass band Familiar Strangers, celtic band The Gloucester Clog and Hornpipe Society, Cuban-American ensemble Los Encendidos, The Squeakeasy Jug Band, and The Jug Nuts, who currently lead monthly jug band jams in Arlington and Jamaica Plain. Her background also includes 10 years of kung fu and lion dance performances around New York City. Jasmine devotes a significant portion of her gray matter to drawing, painting, and graphic design. https://www.jasminesporchmusic.com
Vocals, Banjo, Dobro, Bow Drill
Ken has been performing in bands for over 40 years, starting at age 13 when he joined his first bluegrass band in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where he was raised. He is a prolific songwriter. You can find his music on Spotify. He has performed at festivals in Alaska, Hawaii, California and Massachusetts. His band won the Rockygrass Music Festival Band Competition (1997) in Lyons, CO. He performed for three consecutive years at the Juneau Folk Festival (AK). He has performed professionally for river rafting trips down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, and down rivers in the Arctic, as well as festivals outside Yosemite National Park. More recently, he has performed with the Familiar Strangers, a regional bluegrass band, before embarking on this new creative project with Squirrel Therapy. He has recorded an album with a previous California band and also more recently released two albums of original songs. When he's not distracting himself by playing banjo or dobro, Ken spends time as an organic artist, crafting from materials gathered from the natural world. He also dabbles in watercolor, nature sketching, and digital art (he crafted the Squirrel Therapy Logo). He's a former endangered species ornithologist, wilderness Arctic ranger, and to quote Steve Martin, "I found my special purpose!" connecting people to nature.
Barking, Acrobatics, Zen Koans
Dr. Sigmund Squeak is the Alpha Therapist, our Muse, and overall Groove-Vibe Master who specializes in creating therapy meditations and unique Squirrel Zen Koans. He connects everyone in his orbit deeply to the natural world by "living the dream" as he likes to say, which typically entails lounging on sunny treetop branches while nibbling acorns or reclining in a grassy meadow while listening to smooth jazz or high octane bluegrass space jams. There is no instrument that Squeak is incapable of playing. He was created on a dark winter night in the computer laboratory by fellow therapist, Peter Fernandez.