Sarah
Sarah (vocals) is the lead singer of Fly Casual. She loves jammin’ out to 80’s rock, Disney movies, and jazz tunes (Ella Fitzgerald โค๏ธ). Sarah obtained a vocal performance degree from UW-La Crosse studying opera and jazz in 2014. Sarah recently graduated from Winona State with her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She’s always concerned with how everyone is feeling. She loves it when people are having a good time, so come on out and dance!
Colin
Colin (vocals, guitar) is has been living in Wisconsin for most of his life. He really enjoys playing all sorts of music, and he expands his style according to whichever group he’s playing with. Some of his major influences include Rush, Yes, Stabbing Westward, Mew, Living Colour, Caroline’s Spine, Dream Theater, Nickel Creek, Devin Townsend, Killswitch Engage, Paramore, Heartsounds, Sky Eats Airplane, and Ian Thornley to name just a few. He hopes his music fits somewhere in that mess of artists. These days he is working on expanding and writing his own music. Playing with Fly Casual has been a great time and a good challenge, and he feels really lucky to be working with such a fine group of people.
Paul
Paul (bass) is the newest member of the band. Paul is an active bass player for productions at La Crosse Community Theater as plays often in jazz combos. Paul is extremely knowledgeable about music and musicians. In addition, that background and creating the right vibe is what goes into Paul’s work in making our fantastic set lists!
Eddie
Eddie (keys) is the keyboardist from Northern California with the sweet dance moves. He has been playing piano for 30 years including weddings and church services. Besides arranging music (his biggest arranging accomplishment is fieldshow music for a marching band audience of 50,000), he’s into lindyhop, a form of swing dance. He teaches math at UWL.
Joe
Joe Fendt (drums) has been playing drums for 23 years. He attended UWL for music performance then later went on to UND for Mechanical Engineering. He is currently an engineer at a medical device company in the La Crosse area. Joe enjoys hunting, fishing, snowmobiling and, pretty much everything else! His favorite song to play is Wannabe!!!