Roy
Moore is a unique harpist and a real nice guy.
He is the official First Assistant Sound Technician and
Top Optimist.
Paul Cox is a great country
player.
He crosses those Melody Makers
and is well on his way to mastering the "World's
Largest
Harmonica"
the 48 chord harmonica built by Hohner. He is also a
craftsman in wood
and able to fix just about anything. He is our
"on staff instrument repairman."
Roy
Cox, an Original SHARPS Player and the Head
Sound
Technician. He leads The TopCats with
a Chromatic or Lee Oskar in a variety of tunings, Plus, he plays that
custom
built 4 octave chromatic tremelo designed by John Infande and the
compact
chord designed by Chamber Huang.
Bob Dailey an Original
SHARPS Player.
He plays harmony for the TopCats in whatever
key
needed with a twelve-hole C chromatic. The proud owner and
occasional
player of Jerry Murad's Hohner Bass and able to play a Li'l Lady
four-hole
harmonica with no hands.
Gene Mitchell plays the
chromatic
and loves the Old Tunes and Gospel.
He can regularly be found playing for nursing homes or
charity events in the area.
His rendition of Chinese Breakdown will make a fiddler
drool.
Rick
Brandt plays a Hohner "Country Tuned Special 20" and
bends those country fills like a pro.
Rick volunteers to work with "Cancer Kids" at Camp Smile a Mile. You will see him teaching the kids at The Children's Hospital and at St. Mark's Methodist Church.
Sunday evenings he plays for his supper at the Chateau
Vestavia Retirement Community.
His standing continues to rise in Alabama's Old Time
Fiddler's Convention's harmonica competitions where
he has gotten a standing ovation several times after
his rendition of The National Anthem.
DB Buff is
the original SHARPS player. He was there to find the location of our
very
first meeting in 1991. He is an original from his rendition
of "The Parson and The Bear" to "Night Riders in the Sky" or "Be Thou
My
Vision." If the coffee gets made it is because he did it.
Johnny & Betsy Carver play
folk
harp sounds and also the dulcimers and autoharp.
He is an active member and past president of the West
Appalachian Dulcimer Society.
Betsy
went
to be with the Lord in 2004.
We surely miss her playing things like
"Simple Gifts", "Redwood Casket" and "Kentucky
Waltz"
Addison
Hitchcock tranports the sound equipment so we
let
him keep coming.
He plays the Bass, Chamber Huang's Chordette and a
little
bit of ten hole.