Buck Curran provides vocals, guitar, slide guitar, and sawing fiddle, while Shanti Curran provides lead vocals, banjo, 'Banjimer' (a type of banjo dulcimer made by Tennessee luthier Gwen Forrester), harmonium, ukulele, sawing fiddle, and hammered dulcimer.

Arborea curated and produced the compilation album Leaves of Life to help with relief efforts in Africa such as the UN World Food Program.

The album features Meg Baird, Helena Espvall, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Glenn Jones, Fern Knight, Cian Nugent, and Grammy-nominated, Iraqi-born oud master Rahim Alhaj.

In April 2012 Arborea was invited to National Public Radio (NPR) headquarters in Washington, D.C., and recorded a Tiny Desk Concert.

In 2016 Arborea's music was featured on the Official Trailer for the movie 'Into the Forest' starring Elliot Page and Evan Rachel Wood.

The album was written, produced, performed, recorded, and mixed entirely by Buck and features Shanti on backing vocals on the songs 'New Moontide' and the CCR cover of 'Bad Moon Rising'.

On May 20, 2009, Arborea flew to London and recorded an interview and live session for the BBC Radio 3 program 'BBC World on 3' with host Mary Ann Kennedy.

The showcase was attended by many senior music writers and DJs including David Fricke of Rolling Stone, Jon Pareles of the New York Times, Bob Boilen of NPR, and Kevin Cole of KEXP.

In March 2014 Arborea did a three-week US tour which included shows at Joe's Pub in NYC and their third official SXSW showcase at Bethel Hall/St David's Church in Austin.

In the 2008 issue of Dream magazine,[7] publisher George Parsons wrote that Wayfaring Summer was "easily one of the best debut albums I've heard in many moons".

Bob Boilen included Arborea's SXSW performance among his NPR list of Favorite Concerts of 2012 and recommended live acts.