THE ROUNDHOUSE RASCALS acquired their moniker in the summer of 1994 when they played several times that year at a restaurant adjacent to the Katy Trail in Franklin, Missouri.  The restaurant's building was formerly a Katy Railroad (Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway) office building located very near the remnants of a Katy Railroad roundhouse used in the era of steam engines.

JOHN BERKEMEYER (CLARINET/SAX) has been involved with various jazz and classical music groups over a span exceeding forty years.  He was a member of the 75th US Army Band in Washington DC during his military service and has two European musical tours to his credit.  In addition to his noteworthy contributions to the world of jazz, John is an Associate Circuit Court Judge.

SUSAN GROVES (DRUMS) is director of music therapy at the State Hospital, Fulton, Missouri.  She is a Board Certified Music Therapist, K.U. graduate, and has worked at the Menninger Hospital in Topeka, Kansas.  Her musical talents can be heard on many different instruments.  She plays trumpet in a Community Band and at her church or she may be heard playing guitar or banjo with a bluegrass group.

J. PATRICK HEALEY (TUBA) music director of the Jefferson City Cantorum, received  his undergraduate degree in music education from Northeast Missouri State University, now Truman State University, and did graduate work at the University of Missouri, Columbia. 
A professional musician for many years, "Pat" plays a variety of instruments including trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, percussion, and string/electric bass.  He currently plays with a variety of ensembles in central Missouri and has served as music director and conductor of the Jefferson City Symphony for three seasons.  "Pat" had a career teaching vocal and orchestral music in the Jefferson City Public Schools and yet another career working in Missouri State Government.

MARK HULSE (BANJO/TROMBONE) is now enjoying retirement from the University of Missouri, Columbia where he designed and developed electronic research instrumentation for 40 years.  In the 1960s, he got his start as a tenor banjo player with the group, Banjos, Buckets and Brass, at Shakey's Pizza Parlor in Columbia.  Mark and wife Nora have been members of Dixieland bands, playing at Silver Dollar City, St. Louis, Columbia, and for many festivals and gatherings around Missouri.

NORA HULSE (PIANO) former professor of keyboard studies at Central Methodist College, Fayette, Missouri, is now devoting much of her time to collecting, researching, performing and lecturing on piano ragtime compositions composed by women.  After moving to Columbia, MO in the late 1960s, Nora pursued musical studies at MU, finishing with a Ph.D. in 1988.  She performs ragtime regularly on a live TV talk show, "Pepper and Friends," performs and gives symposiums on the women ragtime composers at ragtime festivals, schools and colleges, and has made 5 recordings of rags by women.  As well as appearing with the Roundhouse Rascals and Turpin Tyme Ragsters, Nora and husband Mark perform as a piano and banjo ragtime duo.

ALAN NELLIS (TRUMPET) works as a music therapist at the State Hospital in Fulton, MO.  In 1974 he was principal trumpet in the KMEA All-State Orchestra.  He graduated from Phillips University in Enid, OK where he studied composition with Dr. E.J. Ulrich.  Since moving to Mid-Missouri in 1983 he has performed with the Columbia Community Band as soloist and conductor and the Jefferson City Symphony.  His compositions have been performed by the Jefferson City Cantorum, Fulton High School and many others.  Although Alan plays in a wide array of venues his heart is closest to his first love, traditional jazz.  His unique personal style is based on such early influences as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Henry "Red" Allen and Bunny Berigan.  He is committed to helping America's great indigenous art form come alive for audiences of the twenty-first century
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