David Budin
David Budin started performing professionally in rock bands and as an acoustic solo singer-songwriter as a teenager in the late 1960s, opening shows for such artists as Linda Ronstadt (with the Stone Poneys), Tim Buckley, and others, at Cleveland music venues, including the legendary La Cave. He moved to New York City in early 1968, and played in a New Jersey-based group called The Gift, which was one of the bands that eventually evolved into Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. While in The Gift, David got to jam onstage with Jimi Hendrix and many others. David left the group to sign with Sire Records as a recording artist, songwriter, arranger and record producer, producing albums by artists including blues legend Otis Spann. David also worked as a comedian and a comedy writer in New York. Returning to Cleveland, David played in several rock and folk groups, under the name Baxter Shadowfield, and continued to produce records, write songs, arrange music, write and perform comedy, and produce concerts, all of which he still does. He is also a free-lance writer, and has served as the editor of Northern Ohio Live and Cleveland Magazine. 
Julie Myers King
Julie Myers King, cellist, is a member of the Akron Symphony, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony (and serves as Contractor/ Personnel Manager), the Blossom Festival Orchestra, and the Cleveland Pops. She holds degrees in cello performance from Indiana University and Louisiana State University. She is an active freelancer in the Northeast Ohio area, and spent 13 winters as the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra, as well as seven summers participating in The Spoleto Festival. She is the cellist with The Athena Quartet. Julie has played with artists such as Harry Connick Jr., The Eagles, Rod Stewart, Paul Shaffer, the Three Tenors, Clay Aiken, Sarah Brightman, Dennis DeYoung, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Roberta Flack, Don Henley and Mannheim Steamroller. In addition, she can be heard on the Albany Record label as well as the soundtrack for the movie, “Across the Universe,” and seen on the HBO special “The 2012 Rock Hall Inductions.” She has been on the faculty of The Cleveland Music School Settlement since 1993. |
Celia Hollander Lewis
Celia Hollander Lewis grew up in a musical family in Cleveland, performing with her three sisters on local TV shows. She graduated from Ohio University, with a Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy, with harp her major instrument. She became a member of the Appalachian Green Parks Project, which was Ohio’s Bicentennial Cultural Arts group, playing guitar, banjo and zither. It was in that group where she met her husband, Charlie. Together, they provided music entertainment for several decades, from before the time they married until he became too ill to perform, in 2019. Celia has played the harp in orchestras, including the Ohio University Symphony, the Arlington (MA) Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Monterey County (CA) Symphony, and for private events and synagogues. She and her husband, Charlie, were also a members of the original Long Road group with David Budin. Celia continues to provide music entertainment and music therapy in a variety of private settings for organizations and several annual events. She has provided music support for Anshe Chesed – Fairmount Temple for more than 50 years. |
Robin Stratton
Robin Stratton is a singer, songwriter, musician and percussionist who has been playing regionally and done national tours for nearly five decades. Her resume includes opening slots for Jeff Beck, Jefferson Starship, Poco, Flying Burrito Brothers, and John Hartford; live and studio performances with Levon Helm, Deadly Earnest and the Honky Tonk Heroes, Alex Bevan, Jim Ballard, blues great Jimmy Ley, Linn Roath, and Bruce Michael; and performances with various TV and radio personalities, including Don Imus, Larry Morrow, Jim Finerty, and Richard Greer. She has done voiceover work and sung on countless jingles for national clients such as KitchenAid. 
Linda White
Linda White excels in an array of musical styles and plays the entire spectrum of flutes, from the piccolo to the contra-bass flute. Linda is an avid chamber musician and champion of contemporary music. She regularly collaborates with the composers of The Cleveland Composers Guild, performs on the annual Local 4 Musician’s Union She Scores series, and is a member of the Cleveland Chamber Collective. Linda regularly performs with classical guitarist Robert Gruca as part of the Gruca White Ensemble. The duo, which stretches the boundaries of the standard classical concert with their improvisations and unique musical arrangements, have released a recording, titled A Different Take. Linda, who also performs with the flute quartet Idle Twittering, is a founding member of the Blue Water Chamber Orchestra, and has also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Pops, Cleveland Ballet, Cleveland Opera Orchestra, Erie Philharmonic, Akron Symphony and Canton Symphony. Linda teaches at The Music Settlement where she also co-directs three flute ensembles and coordinates a program for adult amateurs to gather and play chamber music. She has been a guest clinician for the Interlochen Adult Flute Ensemble since 2020. Linda received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wyoming and a Master of Music degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music. |