AMY BERNER’s performances have ranged from Little Shop of Horrors to Carmina Burana. She’s also lent her voice to performances with the San Diego Symphony, City Ballet of San Diego, Diversionary Theatre, and other arts organizations. In 2017, she had the honor of singing back-up for the Chieftains for the only Southern California stop of their national tour. She co-founded the musical theater nonprofit Encore Vocal Ensemble in 2010 and performed with them for eight years. She joined Tricks in 2016 as their soprano and ancillary percussionist, but she keeps threatening to bring her trombone. In “real life,” she’s an event producer and recently moved to Long Beach to create experiences aboard the Queen Mary. She’s also a proud geek, a Hufflepuff, a tabletop D&D player, a Whovian since 1982, and she usually has her nose in a book.

KEVIN J. CONNORS washed up on the shore along with dregs and flotsam of ruined garage bands and Seadogs, Kevin has been playing music since the 1970’s, performing more actively in the last 14 years. In addition to the Sportive Tricks CD’s, recordings of him can be heard on the Belles of Bedlam live CD “Bootleg” and on DanWill McCann’s CD “DanWill and Friends”. With the Tricks, Kevin primarily plays bouzouki, 6 and 12 string guitars, and a bit of octave mandolin as well as singing tenor. He also serves as the bands “Director”, which he finds similar to herding cats. Really talented cats. In real life, Kevin's in charge of people's mental health. Irony: the operating principle of the universe.

DAN "Greenbean" GONZALEZ's love for music reaches all genres from blues to classical. His experience singing tenor includes, madrigal, concert choirs, California Master Choral, to barbershop quartet. Dan was a musician from the start. He started playing guitar in his teens and bass in his senior year. He honed his skills playing blue grass in a band called The MTA Trio. His love for Irish music came about playing with a group called Gypsy’s Kiss. After a small hiatus for travel and an invitation from his good friend Sue Koches, he auditioned for Sportive Tricks. The camaraderie of good friends and talented musicians led him to be the bass/ guitar player for Sportive tricks.

Musically, KURT HANNA comes from an eclectic background, including renaissance madrigals, classic rock, Christian pop, and, of course, traditional folk. He toyed around with various instruments, but the one he has always come back to is his voice. His voice has taken him far afield, from the mountain heights of Machu Picchu in Peru, to the depths of the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland. With Tricks, he started solely as a vocalist, but soon picked up the Bodhran; when his bandmates didn't object, he kept playing. Kurt never understood his mother's warnings not to play in the street. Professionally, he is a project manager for a traffic control company.

MACKENZIE JAMIESON is an actress by trade doing everything from television to film to audiobooks. She's also the creator and star of the Thrift Store Larper YouTube channel. She grew up on the stage touring with Galena St. East Performing Ambassadors and various musical theater companies in Sacramento, California. Her first opera was “Othello” with the Sacramento Opera company with the children’s choir at age 9. She picked up the violin at age 6 after watching Tweety Bird play in a cartoon. Her love for Celtic and folk music comes from the Chieftains, Kate Rusby, Julie Fowlis and The Decemberists. Mackenzie raises a glass to her departed vocal teacher Jimmy Arnold of the Four Lads.

JEREMY LAMANTIA comes from a background in Instrumental and Vocal Ensembles, this smarmy Irish shasana holds a BA in Music and was an accomplished arranger and performer before joining the Tricks. He will tell you all about it if you ask him…sometimes even if you don’t. He takes to new instruments like a warrior to new weapons, and learned to play the penny whistle in under a week on a bet. In his professional life, Jeremy goes by "Mr. L.", teaching music to kids of all ages, both in and out of the public school classroom. Jeremy has enjoyed every minute of being in Sportive Tricks, and is grateful for the chance to create something amazing with his good friends.

DAN WHIPPLE retired from the Post Office and decided to pick up the fiddle after not playing it for over forty years. How hard can that be? Right? Well, after much practice, the band let him play with them. This is his first time as the fiddle player in a band. Dan has been active in music vocally for many years, singing tenor in many varied group ranging from barber shop quartets to numerous choirs. His voice is warm and strong as is his personality. Dan says they haven't kicked him out yet so he must be doing okay.