Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish plays a wide range of blues and roots music, including but not limited to rockabilly, rock n' roll, swing, blues of many stripes, and a lot of New Orleans-steeped voodoo. Formed in 1991, the band has evolved through many incarnations, three Tone Cool and two self-produced CDs, trips around the world as far as South Africa and mostly the joys of playing a lot of music on Martha's Vineyard where most of them live. Johnny juggles a full life where he takes advantage of his many skills including stone masonry, fishing, antique dealing, farming. Somehow he manages to do all the gigs as well. He came to the Island in 1978, after soaking up Muddy Waters’ and Tom Waits’ shows as a teenager.

Paul Size arrived from Texas in 1997 after a famous stint with The Red Devils in LA. They made one of the great blues blues records in ‘Live at King King’, and when we go to Europe, everyone remembers: everyone wants Paul. He had gone back to Denton and Austin to form his own band with his friend and fellow guitar master Johnny Moeller (now with The Fabulous Thunderbirds), and Johnny Hoy found him at the right moment and asked him to come up and play with us. With a couple of breaks, he's been with the band since he got to the Island.

Jeremy Berlin, the piano player has been with the band for most of its life - since the summer of '93. He’s played duets with President Clinton, and Carly Simon - he’s not afraid of anything, and he plays it all. The band started out as a four-piece with no piano, became a five-piece for several years, and then returned to a four-piece configuration, this time with no bass, and it's been that way for over 10 years. They even play as a three piece without guitar. Jeremy's connection with the Island started before he was born and he's been there on and off ever since.
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