VOCALISTS:

• Geoff Nunberg. Famous author, language expert, and media personality. Consulting Professor of Linguistics; Researcher, CSLI; Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley's School of Information. (1982 -- 1983) [see below]
• Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs. Former Stanford graduate student (PhD, Psychology, 1986) [and coauthor of Herb Clark's]. Now at Panasonic Technologies, USA. (1983 -- 1986)
• Jude Lozon (1986 -- 1991)
• Aarthi Belani. Former Stanford undergraduate. Attorney: Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP (New York). (2000 -- 2002) [Aarthi sings Proud Mary]
• Shelly Waksler. Professor of Linguistics, San Francisco State University. (2000)
• Norma Mendoza-Denton. Former Stanford graduate student (PhD. 1997). Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona. (2000, 2005)
• Meredith Josey Assistant Professor, Utica College. (2000, 2002)
• Michael Ellsworth. Former graduate student, UC Berkeley Linguistics. (2001)
• Penny Eckert. Professor of Linguistics and (by courtesy) of Cultural and Social Anthropology. (2001)
• Carrie MacAndrews. Former Stanford undergraduate. Works at Ms. Magazine in New York. (2001 -- 2002) [Carrie, Aarthi, and Avik sing Creole Lady Marmalade]
• Liz Coppock. Linguistics graduate student. (2004 -- present).
• Lis Norcliffe. Linguistics graduate student. (2004 -- present).
• Laura Staum Casasanto. Linguistics graduate student. (2004 -- present)
• Daniel Casasanto. Psychology postdoctoral fellow. (2007 -- present)

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SPECIAL GUEST VOCALISTS

• Penny Eckert. See above. (2000, 2005, 2007)
• Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs. See above. (2000)
• Sparlha Swaby. Former Stanford undergraduate. (2001) [Sparlha and Aarthi sing Killing Me Softly]
• Avik Maitra. Former Stanford undergraduate. (2001) [Carrie, Aarthi, and Avik sing Creole Lady Marmalade]
• Elaine Richardson. Associate Professor of English and Applied Linguistics, Penn State University. (2002) [Elaine sings Down Home Blues]
• John Rickford. Professor of Linguistics. (2002)
• Geoff Nunberg. See above. (2002, 2007) [Geoff sings Hootchie Kootchie Man]
• Norma Mendoza-Denton. See above. (2006, 2007)
• Mika Poss. CSLI visitor. Researcher and PhD student, University of Leiden. (2006, 2007) [Mika sings Give Me One Reason]

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GUITARISTS:

• Ivan Sag See below. (1982-1983)
• Sami Shaio. Linguistics undergraduate student (BA, 1986). Famous developer of Java and Java applications. Founding partner of Marimba.
• Doug Cutting. Linguistics undergraduate student (BA, 1986). Search engine maven. Founder of Lucene and Nutch.
• Jim Ferrell. Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Biochemistry, Stanford University. [Watch and listen to Jim's solo a third of the way into Blue Suede Shoes]
• Chris Pilon
• Steve Wechsler. Linguistics graduate student (PhD. 1991). Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin. (198?--1990)
• Geoffrey K. Pullum. Professor of Linguistics and Distinguished Professor of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz. (1990 -- 1991)
• John Steiner. Bay Area Attorney. (2002)
• John Beavers. Linguistics graduate student (PhD. 2006). Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UT Austin. (2003 -- 2007)
• John Niekrasz. Computational Linguist, CSLI. (2006 -- 2007)

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BASSISTS:

• Jim Willson
• Sami Shaio. See above.
• Peter Sells. Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages.
• Jim Ferrell (!) See above.
• Michael Gold. Musician, engineer, lovable eccentric... died tragically in 2006.
• Marty Cohen
• George Figgs. Graduate student, University of Colorado Linguistics.

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WIND PLAYERS:

• Jerry Kelly. Linguistics undergraduate student (BA, 1985). (saxophone)
• Jamison (Reed) Smeltz. Psychology undergraduate student (BA circa 1986). Professional saxophonist. (saxophones) [Jamie plays nice solo about a third of the way through Hootchie Kootchie Man]
• Kathryn Henniss. Former Linguistics graduate student. Computing Info Systems Analyst, Highwire Press. (trumpet and horn section arrangements)
• Dani Duke (saxophones)
• John Cooper (trumpet)
• Ron Nash (trombone)
• Gene Pinkston (saxophone)
• Bill Ross (trumpet)
• Jon Neyer (saxophones)
• Norman Rose (saxophone)
• Lauren Hall-Lew. Stanford graduate student. (saxophone, flute, and percussion)
• Stacy Lewis. Stanford graduate student. (flute and slide whistle)

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DRUMMERS:

• Jim Sallis. Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University.
• What was that undergraduate's name? Evan?
• Joe Klecan
• Vernon Fox
• Marnel King. Engineer somewhere in the Valley. marnel@teamirie.com
• Eric
• Dan Purtell. Attorney: Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain (San Francisco). (2001)
• Phil Knudsen. Attorney, Oakland, CA.
• Dan Jurafsky. Associate Professor of Linguistics and (by courtesy) of Computer Science.

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OTHER:

• Ivan Sag Professor of Linguistics and Symbolic Systems. (keyboards) (1982 -- present) [Ivan sings Blue Suede Shoes]
• Pamela Benton (violin) (1989)
• Sarah Benor. Former Linguistics graduate student (PhD. 2004). Assistant Professor, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion. (violin) (2000)
• Mike Rollin. Former Stanford undergraduate (Symbolic Systems). (blues harp; 2000, 2002) [Great harp solo in the middle of Hootchie Kootchie Man]

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Last modified: Sat May 24 2008