Susannah's love affair with singing began with a Judy Garland cassette. In her high school days, she was accepted into the Connecticut All State Choir and awarded a National Choral Award. She honed her harmonizing skills in the University of Vermont's a capella group The Cat's Meow, then in Vermont's professional a capella group Random Association, and later singing funk and soul in Burlington-based Velvet Soul.

Favorite things about singing with Shakedown: the challenge and fulfillment of singing Joan Jett, Michael Jackson and Etta James songs in the same night, and watching the audience smile, sing along, and then be crazy on the dance floor.

San Gordon has been a performing musician since the age of nine. She received her BA in Music from Johnson State College, has taught at Vermont Rock Camp, and has been a professional private music instructor for over ten years. While she specializes in guitar, voice and songwriting, she is also a competent beginner piano, harmonica, and saxophone instructor. She teaches and performs a wide variety of music, from rock and pop, to blues and jazz. She has performed as a solo artist and in bands, on both coasts and in the mid-west, since 1980. San has released two CDs of original music since 1996. Another recent project of San's, "The Soul Inferno" has been playing in Vermont since 2003.

Allie started playing alto sax at age 10. When she was 12, she began taking private classical lessons at UVM from Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble's clarinetist, Steve Klimowski. She studied intensively with Steve for 6 years, and under his guidance, won first place in the Vermont All State Scholarship Competition in the woodwind category 3 consecutive years ('94, '95, and '96). Allie's other achievements include placing principal chair in the saxophone section of the All Eastern Honor Band in '95, and performing as a soloist with the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra in '96. While minoring in music at Middlebury College, she started playing with funk and rock bands, and has been on the rock scene ever since. She played with the Burlington-based band Godfrey from 2000-2002, and has been in musical group King Me since late '02.

Brian Crogan's earliest memories of drumming date back to banging on his kitchen breakfast stools as a child. Classically trained as a drummer in his high school band, he later ventured into both jazz and gospel bands at St. Michael's College. He has been playing clubs and private functions for well over 15 years, most recently in highly praised Vermont cover band, The Naturals, for almost ten years. He's a solid, steady, but exciting drummer who loves to put on a show!

King of the keyboards and a passionate vocalist- Brian Crosby started out as a bass player in his high school rock band. At home, he would play along on piano to songs he liked, and before he knew it, he was ripping up keyboard solos in the band. His talents have been featured in in several local favorites, including The Ticket- one of Vermont's most popular dance bands in the late 1980's, as well as The Project, Straight Up, and most recently Ulterior Motive in 2004. He uses a keyboard to its full technical and creative potential, surprising his audience with fullness of sound.

Scott began playing saxophone at age 10, and guitar at age 11. In high school he discovered that his true love was the bass guitar. In college, he spent a few years locked in his dorm room (between classes), studying a wide range of music and playing styles. In 1998 he performed in classic rock cover band D'Guys. From his first gig, he was hooked, and since has enjoyed playing in both original and cover bands in the Vermont area. Since then, Scott has pursued formal training, and performed in various bands over the past nine years, including Straight Up, and Ulterior Motive. He enjoys song writing and sound engineering. His favorite moment at a show: pulling out a totally forgotten song that everyone loves, but doesn't expect to hear!