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Lynn Noel brings over 30 years experience of traditional music and dance to the group, with a chentey singer's powerful lungs and a storyteller's flair for living history and a passion for true tales of adventurous women. A writer by trade, a morris and sword dancer, and a seasoned solo performer in her own right, Lynn is bilingual in French, speaks German, and sings in twelve languages from Gaelic to Inuktitut, but her favorite instrument is the audience. Her indomitable sense of humor and sparkle enliven every performance, and she possesses an astonishing ability to call moose across state lines.

Alan Field has sung with community and international choruses including The Mystic Chorale, Halalisa Singers, Sharing a New Song and Revels Circle of Song. Alan enjoys the informal sharing of traditional song that builds community across generations and cultures. Alan's current venture, the South Africa Community Project, recycles used Macintosh computers from the Boston area (over 400 so far) into local school systems in South African rural communities. Alan's hardware skills are impressive and creative: he can anchor a fleet of canoes with a single Toyota transmission.

Liz Lewis developed a love of harmony in her native Colorado by singing alto and playing bass clarinet (not at the same time). Liz has sung everything from church choir soprano to barbershop tenor, while earning an M.B.A. and working in international health care management. El Salvador, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Kenya, the Philippines, and Nicaragua are among her recent ports of call. Liz is fluent in Spanish, and can be polite in Greek and rude in Arabic.

Ed Softky has been in a cappella groups of many sizes over the years, most recently as a Halalisa Singer and a barbershop baritone. Ed dances (and sings) with the Commonwealth Morris Men, speaks Spanish and Tibetan, and dabbles in Thai cooking and Tibetan throat-singing. Ed enlivens the tedium of a software engineer's cubicle with Buddhist retreats and the occasional apocalyptic advertising campaign.