Dennis Murphy (bassoon, string bass, viola da gamba, flute, whistle, recorder, percussion and vocals) has degrees in music composition and ethnomusicology and plays a wide variety 
of instruments and music. He is the director and builder of the Plainfield Village Gamelan (the first of its kind in the US!) which plays authentic traditional Indonesian music. He is a member of the Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band (Vermont's finest Klezmer band) and guest artist with many local musical groups. He is a very respected composer and has composed for Nisht Geferlach and many other ensembles as well as Fyre and Lightning. Dennis is an accomplished painter and photographer as well.
Steven Light (string bass, lute, viola da gamba, bagpipes, recorder, shawm, cornetto, krummhorn, percussion and vocals) has played and taught music from an early age. He is a founding member and the director of the Consort. He has
an MFA in Early Music Performance and plays trumpet and string bass in the Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band. Steven has performed on trumpet and recorder with many area ensemble and has also guest conducted numerous high school festival ensembles. He teaches instrumental music, music theory, composition and electronic music in a Vermont High School and is the former Director of the Early Music Ensemble of Dartmouth College.
Kathy Munson Light (harp, recorder, krummhorn and vocals) is a 
founding member of The Fyre and Lightning Consort, sings in several area choruses, has played clarinet and bass clarinet in the Bach Wind Philharmonia, and plays clarinet and harp in the Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band. Kathy teaches music composition and vocal music in a Vermont High School.
Ellie Hayes (vielle, recorder, whistle and vocals) has been immersed in musical activity from an early age, and has studied and performed music of many genres, appearing in concert with the Quadrivium, Word of Mouth Chorus, Wellspring Contradance Band, Matrix (Women's Balkan Ensemble), Plainfield Village Gamelan, Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band, and Anima (Medieval Women's Chorus), as well as Fyre and Lightning. In November '97 she produced and directed a concert of medieval antiphons for Advent, supported in part by a grant from the Vermont Arts Council.
Bruce Chalmer (vielle, recorder, percussion and vocals) was a founding member of Fyre and Lightning in 1974, and,after taking a break to catch up on sleep around 1983, rejoined the group in 1991. Besides early music, his musical interests include piano and Jewish liturgical singing. He works as a psychologist and family therapist in Montpelier, Vermont, and is the director of the Vermont Center for Collaborative Assessment. He is married and has three sons.