Multi-instrumentalist playing saxophones, flutes, recorders, and more, Donovan Boxey, like Bierenga a Central Michigan University alum, has been playing with variations of Northwoods Improvisers and Collective having also studied with John Lindberg and at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY. In 2017 the two released a duo CD As Iron Sharpens Iron, and two years later Boxey launched his solo album Speaking in Tongues (Solos 2019). He is active on the Detroit scene, playing with his own groups as well as with those led by others such as the Dr. Prof. Leonard King Orchestra.