Born and raised in Memphis, Tenn., the "Home of the Blues," Peter Hyrka grew up on a steady diet of rock, blues, and soul music. Having taken instruction on the accordion, clarinet, guitar and piano, he then discovered the beauty of the violin, and has been fascinated with it ever since. 
It was while in high school that Peter was led to the delightful sounds of Joe Venuti, Stephane Grappelli, Stuff Smith, Jean Luc Ponty, and other jazz string players. He spent several years performing in country, rock, bluegrass, and reggae bands, which led to work as a session violinist. In 1984 he organized the “Victims of Circumstance,” which featured the vibraphone, giving it a sound as much like a meeting between Stephane Grappelli and Lionel Hampton, as it did of the “Quintet of the Hot Club of France.”
In 1989, Peter was signed to Columbia Records with his rock group, “Human Radio.” In 1995, he created “The Gypsy Hombres”, a new acoustic trio featuring violin, guitar, and string bass, which is now his full time vocation. He is the recipient of numerous Premier Player Awards given by the Memphis chapter of the National Association of the Recording Arts and Sciences (N.A.R.A.S.), and was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame. And, as a fan and student of music of the world, adamantly believes in the observation of the great Duke Ellington: that there are only two kinds of music - good and bad.
He has performed and recorded with Steve Forbert and Todd Snider, Rusty Young of “Poco”, John Cowan, and appears on the platinum-selling Squint Records' recording group, “Sixpence, None the Richer.” In 1998 Peter reunited with Human Radio to record with Japanese pop-vocalist Miyako Shinohara, which led to a tour of Japan. In April, 2000, he arranged the strings behind Willie Nelson and Duane Eddy at the Ryman Auditorium, as part of Chet Atkin's Musician Days.
Locally, apart from the Hombres, Peter can be observed playing with the up-and-coming, desert-tinged Kim's Fable.
Mr. Hyrka counts travel among his hobbies, and currently resides in Nashville. When not being a gypsy, he works as a composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.

Rory Hoffman discovered his musical talents at the age of four by creating his own playing style. Because his hands were too small to fit around the neck of the guitar, he laid it across his lap and has played it that way ever since. At the age of five he became Roland Hoffman and the Believers' official drummer. Once his younger brother took up an interest in drums, it was only natural for Rory to move on to a new instrument. Since then his horizons have expanded to where he now commands an arsenal of over fourteen instruments. After attending college for two years and majoring in music, he decided that it was time to pursue his musical aspirations full time.  Rory's first step toward this goal was accomplished in 1999 when he won Grand Champion Instrumentalist at the Estes Park Christian Artist Seminar in the Rockies.  since that time he has recorded 2 CDs. "Blind Faith" produced in Nashville, is an instrumental CD of well-known Christian hymns arranged in a country/jazz/blues style.  "Fishin" contains songs co-written by Rory and was self-produced at Depot Music Productions' recording studio in Mobridge SD. 

Rory has been blessed and honored to receive the CCMA award for "musician of the Year" in both 2004 and 2005.  In March of 2006 Rory was selected to be part of the Winter Jam 2007 tour, which will expose his music ministry to tens of thousands of people.  Rory has learned that with God all things are possible, and he enjoys sharing that with his audiences.

Jason was born in Hendersonville, TN. His family moved to Knoxville where he attended high school and eventually enrolled at the University of Tennessee. There he studied music in the Studio Music and Jazz program under Rusty Holloway. The Jazz program at that time was led by the great jazz pedagogue Jerry Coker. Jason considers his time at UT to be some of the greatest times of his life. While living in Knoxville, Jason performed with such notable jazz artists as Donald Brown and Stanley Turrentine. He also spent a few years performing with the Columbia recording artist Robinella before moving to Nashville in 2002.

Upon arriving in Nashville Jason met Peter Hyrka and began playing with The Gypsy Hombres. At the same time Jason was working with guitarist and songwriter Luke Reynolds and together they formed the band Blue Merle. Blue Merle would go on to sign a record deal with Island/Def Jam and release the album Burning in the Sun. They toured the country and opened for such acts as The Dave Matthews Band, The Counting Crows, Van Morrison, Train, Ozomatli, Guster, and performed FarmAid 2004 as well as Bonnaroo 2004 and 2005.

Blue Merle would eventually go their seperate ways in 2007 and Jason and Peter found each other again to form the latest version of the Hombres along with Rory Hoffman.