Mark Dowding (sax, flute and harmonica) debuted as a professional musician in 1970 and has performed and recorded with artists in western Canada in genres as diverse as celtic, juju, salsa, contemporary folk, pop, blues, R&B and his main love, hot swing. Mark handles the group's website and multimedia through his company, WindGod Productions. He is also co-founder of the BC-based traditional folk music group The Wheat in the Barley playing a variety of festivals and educational school performances. Mark handles the official Hot Club of Mars website through his company, WindGod Productions.

Don Kellett (rhythm and lead guitar) started playing at age 10, purchasing a guitar and lessons with his paper route money. In 2002, Don met Michael Dunn who fostered Don's interest in Hot Swing and Hawaiian Steel Guitar. Don also performs as a solo finger style guitarist, in duos with Rosemary Campbell and Abby Schwarz. Don is on the faculty of the Moveable Music School in Vancouver.

Charlie Knowles (acoustic and electric bass) has been a professional musician since 1969. Charlie has played in a wide variety of musical situations, covering concert performance, musical theatre and studio recording. As long-time sideman of Joelle Rabu, music has taken him to the USA, Eastern Europe, and China. Recording credits include numerous film scores, albums and the debut D & the Hot Club of Mars CD— Gypsy Fire, which he engineered, mixed and mastered.

Tom Neville (fiddle and mandolin) offers up a wide variety of musical tastes; folk, celtic, blues, popular, jazz, country and ethnic flavours. He has played on numerous recording sessions for film, commercials and on many album projects. In 2001 he released his first solo CD, "Highly Strung", a collection of original and traditional material featuring many of the finest musicians and singers from British Columbia. Some career highlights include a command performance for the Duke and Duchess of Kent at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa (backing Joelle Rabu), performing with Danny Kaye and the Peking Pops Orchestra at Expo 86, and recording and performing with Juno Award winner James Kellaghan

Steve "Bugzy" Szabo (rhythm guitar) began playing guitar at an early age and developed a special passion for hot swing in recent years. He was a regular member of Lache Cercel's exotic gypsy swing ensemble who held court at the Kino Cafe in Vancouver every Monday night for many years. It was in these long-running sessions that he met and began playing with Michael Dunn, who has taken Steve in as his prot%E9g%E9 and has worked with him on developing the tightly coordinated Gypsy jazz rhythm and lead guitar stylings now manifesting themselves in the rhythms of D & the Hot Club of Mars.