Christian Ace Trio

Guitarist Christian Ace Seaman has been playing clubs and theaters in New York and New Jersey since 2010.  His playing style is influenced by the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Johnson, and Joe Bonamassa.  In 2014 he was featured on singer-songwriter Cara Smith's debut EP and NYU-based artist Jake Tavill's debut CD, Indigo Child.

Ilya Stemkovsky has played drums in a variety of nationally-touring groups and has garnered various press for his eclectic style. He spent 7 years with San Francisco-based electric jazz group OM Trio (www.omtrio.com), which toured relentlessly and won the SF Bay Guardian's 2001 Reader's Poll for best local jazz band. OM Trio was featured in The Washington Post, The Village Voice, and JazzTimesMagazine. In 2006-2008, Ilya played drums in Philadelphia-based electro-pop group Brothers Past (www.brotherspast.com) which has been featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer and URBMagazine. He has also played in numerous wedding bands, pop projects, and blues groups. Ilya, who was born in Moscow, Russia, has been reviewed in Modern Drummer Magazine on numerous occasions and has an artist endorsement deal with Vic Firth drumsticks.

On the local scene since the late 1990s, Frank Ulatowski has been the bass player for many popular and upcoming shore bands. Ulatowski has played with funk and soul groups such as Jazzpollution and Fatback, country outfit The E-Boro Bandits, and popular shore cover acts including The Good Life, Daville, and Katfish Lucy.