Jerry.D. Stephenson - Trumpet  Jerry began his trumpet career by learning to play his Father's WWI trench Bugle at the age of 8 (his father was a 17 year old bugler during the war).  Jerry’s uncle was a drummer for both the Ray Noble orchestra and Red Nichols and the "Five Pennies."  This uncle and Jerry’s father  suggested he start trumpet lessons  at age 10.  During junior and senior high school, he was 1 st chair trumpet.  He was awarded two scholarships (Michigan State University and Interlochen). He played in two dance bands and went on to play summer jobs in various combos after high school and in college. In the Army he played briefly with the 9th Div. band in Germany before transferring to liason duty with the Adj.Gen.Corp. After college graduation he sold his horn and never played again for 44 years.  In 2001 he ook it up again, and after what he describes as “a  rough first year” , he is enjoying playing again and has found a home with the Strummers.	Calvin Wallace, M.D. - Tenor Sax and clarinet During his grammar school years Calvin studied piano and clarinet, and he stayed with the clarinet through high school and into college years, but had to lay it aside when he began pre-med at the University of Tennessee and through his medical school years.  He dabbled with the ukulele some before his career as an anesthesiologist and sang for many years in his church choir, but it wasn’t until he and his wife, Doris, retired to Marco Island that he found a clarinet at a flea market and decided to go back to playing the clarinet. From that he expanded his interest to the tenor sax and now has about six years experience playing with the Marco Island Strummers. He is a member of the Strummer board of directors.
Ed Denison - alto sax, soprano sax	Wes English, M.D. - Director, Trombone When Wes and his wife, Ann, moved from Maine to Marco Island in 1999, he had already been a member of three bands in Maine, directing two of them, playing cornet and banjo.  Through an ad he placed in the local Marco Island newspaper, the Marco Island Strummers were formed, beginning with about five recreational musicians.
Bill Champe - Tuba:   Bill grew up in a very musical family.  His grandmother was a professional pianist all her life and his father and brother were very good drummers.  Bill played trumpet all through his school years and later played in competitive drum & bugle corps.  Since switching to the tuba, he has enjoyed the increased exposure to music theory and he says he is striving to learn more and become a more accomplished musician.	Don Fejfar - trumpet: Wes met Don one day in about 2001 at Marco Office Supply copying studio, and ever since he has played trumpet with the Strummers.  Don’s interest in music began at the age of seven when he convinced his parents to let him study the trumpet.  During high school years he participated in National High School Music competition and played with various musical groups at radio station WNAX in Yankton, South Dakota.  Military service provided him an opportunity to play with the U. S. Army Field Band out of Washington, DC.  Upon his honorable discharge from the Army he formed his own big band (Don Fejfar and His Orchestra)  while attending the University of South Dakota.  After moving to Iowa he became involved in drum and bugle corps work and then became director of the Iowa Falls High School Band.  Now working in the investment business, he still has time to direct yet another band, “Dow Jones and The Averages.”  The highlight of his  musical career was attending the 60th anniversary of the United States Army Field Band in August 2006 and playing a concert with the band at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.