Nick Balaban made music for lots of children's tv, including Blue's Clues, Blue's Room, Word World, Bubble Guppies, PBS Kids, and Peg + Cat. Recorded and/or gigged with: Ray Charles, Patti LaBelle, Macy Gray, The Persuasions, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Phoebe Snow, Toni Braxton, Randy Travis, David Murray, John Boutté, India.Arie, Percy Sledge, Culture, Duduka da Fonseca, Romero Lubambo, Speedball Baby, Bashiri Johnson, Fred Hopkins, Sugar Minott, John Zorn's Cobra, Alton Ellis, Barrington Levy, Davis Rogan, Charlie Giordano, Leroy Sibbles, Nell Carter, Bern Nix, G.R.A.S.S., Souljahs, Jim Nolet, Jon-Erik Kellso, Dan Levinson, Mike Clark, The Strangelys, J. Walter Hawkes, Shelly Thunder, Bradley Jones, Gary Knox & the Streethearts, Ed Pettersen, etc. Currently playing with Rho & The Nomads, Centralia, Touque, Kevin Batchelor, The Grateful Dread, Entrain, and playing solo shows in and around NYC.

Ron McBee loves percussion. He has been performing, touring and studying for over 20 years. He is at home with most any musical style, however, his focus has been on the percussion traditions of the African diaspora, for which Ron’s depth of knowledge moves fluidly from hambone, spoons and washboard playing, to drumming styles of the Caribbean and South America. Ron has toured with several popular artist including The Sun Ra Arkestra and Hasan Hakmoun. A prolific composer for theatre and dance, Ron has composed and arranged the music for “Harriet’s Return” and the percussion arrangements for the New York, London and Los Angeles productions of “The Colored Museum”. He, along with Hasan Bakr and Victor Y. See Yuen, are founders of Heritage O.P.