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Laurel Sercombe has been the Archivist for the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington since 1982. She has co-produced a series of music recordings with Northwest Folklife, lectured for classes in Ethnomusicology, Library and Information Science, and American Indian Studies, and designed and taught a course on sound archiving. In 1998 she received a pre-doctoral Smithsonian Research Fellowship and in 2001 received her Ph.D. with the dissertation And Then It Rained: Power and Song in Western Washington Coast Salish Myth Narratives. She is a member of the Music Library Association, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, and the Society for Ethnomusicology, for which she served as Current Discographer 1992–2000 and Treasurer 2000–2004. She serves on the boards of Jack Straw Productions and Northwest Heritage Resources. In 2013 she organized and hosted "Sounds of the World," a series of six programs for UWTV featuring film footage from the Robert Garfias Collection in the Ethnomusicology Archives.

Ustad Faiyaaz Khan (1881-1950) was a Hindustani classical vocalist from Sikandara, India. His maternal grandfather, Ghulam Abbas, raised him and taught him music until the age of 25. Faiyaaz Khan served as a court musician for Sir Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the Maharaja of Baroda. He was respected by the Baroda rulers, and was given a seat next to the Maharaja during official royal court functions.

Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan (1927-1991) was a vocalist, composer, and teacher from Agra, India. Between 1962 and 1964, he worked with All India Radio as a composer and left a variety of compositions under the pen name Darpan. He is also known for being a Professor of Music at the University of Delhi. In 1985, he traveled to the United States for a year to teach ethnomusicology at the University of Washington. During his career, he published articles, papers, and books about music and ethnomusicology.