Art Kamsopa is also a multi-instrumentalist and volunteer instructor at the Thai Cultural Center. He received his degree in Music from Mahasarakhram University in Northeast Thailand, and specializes in folk instruments from the ethnically Lao region and people known as Thai Issan. Here are the Asian Crisis CD Release Concert, Art is featured playing the khene, or double-reeded bamboo mouth organ.
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Perhaps the earliest form of the Chinese sheng, Japanese sho, and precursor to the western accordion, harmonica, harmonium and other instruments, the khene is often considered the national instrument of Laos.
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Danny is the Founder and Director of Kulintang Dance Theatre that reaches over 10,000 children annual through Young Audiences of the Bay Area. A lifelong student of the dignified roots of gong and drum music of the Southern Philippines since 1998, Danny has studied and performed with NEA recipient and Kulintang Master Danongan Kalanduyan. In 1998 he was the first Filipino-American to perform kulintang in the Shariff Kabungsuan Festival in Cotabato City, Mindanao.
Nui Loakimpongsawat graduated with a degree in Music Education from Bansomdej Choapraya University in Bangkok. Currently the head music instructor for the Thai Cultural Center at Wat Monkorattanarum in Berkeley, Nui specializes in kong moung (bronze bell set) and ponglam (suspended wood xylophone). 
Hojung Choi is a highly sought-after singer in the traditional Korean vocal tradition both here in America and across the Pacific. Hojung sings Stolen Fields and Arirang on Asian Crisis’ latest recording.