Doug Rohde (keyboards) grew up near Madison, Wisconsin. Doug's piano teacher tried to turn him into a pi-AN-ist, but Doug watched too many Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoons, and hung out with the wrong crowd, and ended up being a pie-ANNA player instead.
After college, while living in Boston, Doug took improvisation lessons with jazz saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi. Unfortunately, all Doug remembers is that Jerry had a flashlight-tag-loving albino cat named Creature.
Lured by an actress and a job in the Children's Theatre Company orchestra, Doug moved to the Twin Cities. After a year or two, she moved to New York, but he didn't. Jam sessions at the Blues Saloon led to gigs with Shangoya, Markiss and Shades of Color, World Citizens, and Down Right Tight. Doug has also gigged frequently with his own jazz trios for nearly two decades.
For the last few years Doug has been managing Conner's Corner Bed & Breakfast with Sylvia Bachmann -- in her home town of Denison, Iowa, where the terrain is very hilly, thank you very much. The couple are now back in the Twin Cities, happily reunited with several dozen of their closest friends.