"...mutual understanding and instinctive interactivity...wry imagination, vast abundance of technique and investment in the emotional underpinnings of much jazz...refreshing and certainly unconventional without sacrificing jazz's leaps of logic and flights of fancy."

          Bill Donaldson, Jazz Improv Magazine

You've never heard jazz played quite like this! Two classically trained and jazz-savvy string players stretch the bounds of their instruments to create a unique approach to jazz standards and original compositions. Formed in the spring of 2000, Different Strokes has performed at venues around the Bay Area, including the Old First Church Concert Series, San Francisco Arts Festival, SIMM series, People in Plazas Series, Canvas Gallery, Dolores Park Café, and Citizen Cupcake Café (San Francisco); the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival; the Berkeley Art Center, Bird's Nest Jazz Series, and Voila Juice Bar and Café (Berkeley/Oakland); 19 Broadway Niteclub (Fairfax); Rustico's Restaurant and Caffe Trieste (Sausalito and Berkeley); and the Healdsburg Society for Music and Art. Different Strokes is also on the performance roster of Bread and Roses, Inc. The duo's debut CD, “Different Strokes Live,” is available on the Edgetone label.

Jazz violinist Yehudit (pronounced "yeah who DEET") has made a place for herself in the forefront of the jazz mainstream, demonstrating that the electric violin, in her hands, is a convincing and innovative jazz instrument. She has headlined at Yoshi's (Oakland), Lunaria (Los Angeles), La Ve Lee (Studio City), Linnaea's Cafe (San Luis Obispo), the Dean Lesher Center for the Arts (Walnut Creek), the Fillmore Street Jazz Festival (San Francisco), the Union Street Art Fair (San Francisco), and other venues in the Bay Area and California. The artists she has appeared with include John Handy, Dan Hicks, Walter Savage, Denise Perrier, and Jules Broussard. In May of 2007, Yehudit resigned her long-time position with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra in order to devote her full energies to jazz performance and composition. "Yehudit," her debut album, was released in 1997. Her second CD, “Valentine,” featuring jazz treatments of classic love songs, was released in May 2001 on the Edgetone label, and is being distributed nationally by Jazzheads Records.

Beth Snellings, cellist, has been performing in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 20 years. Her performing experience spans such musically diverse contexts as symphony orchestras, musical theatre, television, chamber music ensembles, jazz combos and new music groups. Beth's credits include performances at the 2007 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (Charya Burt Cambodian Dance Company), a European tour of “West Side Story,” performances with the Austin Willacy Band and the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra as well as engagements as a chamber musician for private events and entertainment. She was also the music director of “Funky Fitness” , a TV show produced in San Francisco. Beth is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and of the University of Arizona .