The Happy Campers

String Swing and Sing

Seattle, WA

We play mostly swing music from the late 1920s to the early 1950s.  Usually swing bands have horns but we like to pluck on our guitars, ukuleles, dulcimers and double bass.  The group was founded in 1999 by Mary Lytle.  We started with a lineup of people who had played together at guitar camp (PSGW) and eventually evolved to the current collection of players and singers.

The band:

Niels Andersen - dulcimer, ukulele, vocals

Maria Batayola - vocals, percussion

Richard Gillmann - ukulele, melodica, vocals

Susan Howell - vocals, ukulele, guitar, dulcimer, melodica

Sandy Macdonald - guitar, vocals

Bill McKee - double bass, guitar, vocals

Also sitting in from time to time:

Jan Denali - fiddle, mandolin, vocals

Roxann Gary - vocals