Dubliin born guitarist, Ed Deane, played the superb slide, acoustic and electric guitars on the music track for the movies, Stormy Monday and Leaving Las Vegas directed by Mike Figgis.  He has toured and recorded with Nick Lowe, Dana Gillespie and Frankie Miller.  His first recording was with Terry Woods (Sweene's men, Steeleye Span, Pogues).  The album was one of the earliest attempts by an Irish band to play Irish music using a combination of electric guitars, drums etc. with traditional instruments.  He has also recorded with Shane MacGowan and the Popes and recently on Chris Jagger's new Album "Channel Fever".  Ed's background is blues and he also plays classical guitar.  The infusion of these with Irish Traditional techniques give a unique feel to his playing.  Ed plays all thguitars on the Dagda's Cauldron CD.

Kevin McAlea has toured / recorded with Kate Bush, Clannad, Seal, Richard O'Brien, Roy Harper, Pino Danielle, Enya, Barclay James Harvest and other artists. He has written music for film and TV.   Kevin also wrote the lyrics for the hit song '99 Red Balloons'.  He began the Celtic Orbis project in 1999 and plays Uilleann Pipes and keyboards on the Dagda's Cauldron album.

Ashley Reed studied violin from an early age.  Attending master classes by, amongst others, Yehudi Menuhin.  He has toured and recorded with the Albion Band and his own group, the Savage Rabbits, and has played with the likes of the Fairport's Dave Swarbrick.  There are some fine examples of Ashley's playing on Sarsfeld's Flight to Dublin, Runaway Ghaut, Chicago Ceelidh, the Bull of conflict, the  Pursuit of Diarmaid and Grainne, Farewell to Albo and Carolan's Sile.