Rick Corrigan came to the accordion after years of experience as an electronic music composer and performer, releasing albums of music with the aleatoric/electronic group Architects Office as well as the avant cabaret group Doll Parts. He has also composed several scores for experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and has produced live film and sound performances with filmmaker Paul Lundahl at San Francisco's Exploratorium and SF's Cinematheque.

Katja Cooper’s eclectic style encompasses the rhythms and instrumentation of the Middle East, Africa, Spain, the Caribbean and South America. While living in Israel, she was affiliated with Meira Asher’s Ghanaian "Ensemble Calabash". She performed as a member of a Brazilian samba group, and participated in traditional flamenco music projects with both local and visiting Spanish artists such as Sharon Saguy and La Tati. In addition to performing with such popular artists as Gilberto Gill and Rami Kleinstein at major Festivals and on Israeli TV, Katja toured with various groups to Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Europe, and the United States, and recorded with Coco Linares/Cecilia Beraza in Peru. In 2000, Katja was a co-founder of "White Flag", a Palestinian/Israeli band. Since 1989 she has regularly toured with the Sharon Katz Peace Train Project (most recently at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles).

Chloe Allen, our newest member, has performed in several orchestras around the country and received her graduate degree from the Manhattan College of Music.

Tim Fox was a member of the original San Francisco guitar quartet, was for many years a featured artist on KQED-FM's West Coast Weekend, and has led groups of his own.

Greg Kehret, primarily an upright acoustic bassist, is a longtime Bay
Area music veteran who has performedwithnumerous jazz, groove, and
tango musicians around the Bay. Outside of the pickPocket ensemble he
most often works with the vocal led, live electronic act "Halou", and
the klezmer group "Klezmania". His sound is solid, deep and also central to the pocket that drives pPe.