Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni plays accordion with the Central Texas contra dance band "Jalapeño Honey," and arranges and composes the band's repertory of more than 400 tunes. She studied concert accordion and music theory with her father, Robert S. Tiffany, Jr., classical pedal harp with Gayel Panke Gibson and Laurie Buchanan, voice with Lori Joachim Fredrics, cello with Prudence McDaniel of the Marian Anderson String Quartet, and mandolin with Marilynn Mair. She has won many awards for Scottish harp performance. Evelyn received a B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Texas-El Paso and a Ph.D. in Human Genetics and Cell Biology from the University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston and is a professor of neuroscience at Texas A&M University.