Monty Brown was born in England, raised in Canada and now lives in the United States. He thinks of himself as tri-cultural. He has worked in television production with the BBC in London, as a radio producer with the NPR affiliate in Shreveport, LA and as an actor in Canada and the UK. He and his wife, Marsha, are a musical duo working with school boards in Louisiana and New York to present folk music in an historical context.

Marsha Brown was born and raised in upstate New York and moved to the South in 1972. Her interest in the music and culture of Louisiana, combined with a background in marketing, led her to organize and direct the Northwest Louisiana Film Commission in 1990. She now is a traveler, musician, songwriter, film maker and... Nana.