Dee Christensen Mandolin, vocals Having dabbled in mandolin for many years, Dee began playing seriously when she moved to Olympia from Oregon more than ten years ago. Originally concentrating on contradance and New England styles, Dee also had an interest in early swing music and dance. She began immersing herself in swing style mandolin while studying music at The Evergreen State College. Nancy Hanna Fiddle, vocals Nancy has played classical violin since she was eight years old. For the last fifteen years she has been a member of Concordia, a quartet performing early baroque music. Her interest has broadened in the last few years to include the traditional American and Irish styles of fiddling. Nancy brought to the group a background of music theory which has enhanced the band’s arrangements and harmonies. Deb Hunemuller Fiddle, vocals Deb, originally from Iowa, has played the violin since she was ten. She fell in love with the traditional old-time fiddle style in 1975 while in college and has since played in several stringbands in Washington and Iowa. She also performs with the old-time stringband, Snake Oil. Her father, a musician during the swing era of the 30’s and 40’s, provided Deb with strong roots in swing. Greg Starling Guitar, vocals Greg professes to have played guitar during the course of eight presidential administrations. An early student at Evergreen, he played in several stringbands, including a stint with the irreverent Reverend Chumley. Growing up in a family of barbershop quartet singers as well as being influenced by the Beatles and the swing of Dan Hicks, Greg’s singing and guitar work flow easily from one musical style to another. Riley McLaughlin Bass, whistles, vocals Riley brings a background in jazz, rock, arranging and film scoring and played mainly horns and keyboards before joining the band. He showed up at a Back Porch Swing rehearsal with a bass one day and the band adopted him. His knowledge of various styles of music and the rich sound of that bass round out the Back Porch Swing sound.