Elixir is a five-member band combining driving fiddle and guitar playing with the rhythmic excitement of a full horn section. Elixir performs tightly crafted dance music drawing on a wide range of styles and evoking a variety of moods. Elegant melodies evolve into raucous dixieland horn riffs; transcendent harmonies, playful improvisations, and rock, swing and reggae-inspired rhythms weave in and out of traditional and original Irish, French Canadian and New England tunes. Nils calls dances and plays trombone with Elixir.

Colman's Well is a 3-voice (mostly) a capela singing group. Colman's Well presents an eclectic blend of songs ranging from Stanley Brothers classics and the Sacred Harp to Fiona Apple and Monkey Puzzle. Reveling in tight, unaccompanied harmony, Colman's Well also brings instrumentation into play with guitar, mbira, ukelele, trombone and percussion.