Dona Masi - Lead Vocals

One of the original members of Hoi Polloi, Dona has mastered a wide range of vocal styles from soft and sweet to in your face kick-butt rock. Her energy and enthusiasm is sure to bring the crowd to its feet!

John Shore                  (The New Guy)         Guitar and Vocals

Hailing from Portsmouth, NH, John has been involved in several musical projects over the last 18 years. He played in bands such as Plan 9 from Outer Space, Miller's Genuine Draft, The Experimental Rats and the very successful Tone Salad. He was also part of an acoustic duo called Open Window. John's last project was doing solo gigs around the region. However, the call to rock with a full band was too strong and like a fly to a windshield he was drawn to Hoi Polloi.
 

Scott Chrane - Bass 

 Scott Chrane has been an on-again, off-again bass player for the past 25 years. He became "on again" in 1997, after experiencing a sonorous epiphany at a local music store while plucking a '72 Hofner Beatle Bass.  The
bass came home with him, and his long-dormant rock and roll roots were soon
awakened.  Not since his 1980-81 stint with the Durham-based New Wave band, The Briefs,  was Scott
comfortable playing in front of a crowd again, but he soon quickly established himself in the Seacoast area  as a top "school musical session man" and "gentleman swing bassist".  By 2002, he was ready to rock out again when he met John and Dona. What could we say? Scott adds a steady, Entwistle-esque quality to our backbeat, and he's not afraid to belt out a few vocals as well. Scott is also a member of Union Pier, a "fresh water" reggae project based out of Chicago, IL.
 

Jeanie Caven - Sound Engineer, Backing Vocals

After a long stint as Kiss' Sound Engineer, Jeannie was looking for a quieter life and decided to give up the Rock and Roll every night, party every day attitude. Relocating from NYC to  the quiet Seacoast of NH Jeannie was at a local night club and heard the band Hoi Polloi playing.  She couldnt resist the opportunity to tweek their sound board a bit. It was instant friendship where she is now the bands chief sound engineer. Jeannie also provides backing vocals for the band when she isn't balancing the graphic EQ...

Guitar - John Layton

 Starting at age nine, John has had guitar playing in his blood. Studying under such notables as Jim Gagner ( author of The Gagner Guitar Method ) and Jim Price (of international jazz fame)  John loves all styles and techniques of guitar playing. After being in successful rock bands throughout his high school years, John was accepted to Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA where he studied for three years, or as he puts it, "until the money ran out" . John has played throughout the seacoast in many styles of bands, from acoustic trios to an oldies rock band. Johns favorite music however, has always been whatever the current kick but rock is... as a kid, he was always first on his block with the latest KISS record!

Drums - Brian Caven

 Brian, a native of Massachusetts and current resident of Dover NH became a musician late in life. After finally seeing his favorite band Aerosmith in 1997, and being awestruck by the hard hitting drive of Joey Kramer, he decided to fulfill his life long desire to play the drums. The day after the concert he sought out professional instruction and continues to study with weekly lessons. After 3 years of lessons he was finally proficient at “chick-boom- thwack” and decided it was time to play with others and stop playing with himself. Getting together with a few other co-workers and rehearsing in an old storage room of the company, the very popular cover band, Tone Salad was formed and toured New England for over 5 years before disbanding in April 2006. In September of 2007 the itch to perform was back when he met the members of Hoi Polloi who were auditioning drummers. From the first practice, the music, personalities and goals all clicked. Brian looks forward to driving the backbeat of this Seacoast rock powerhouse.