Vocalist Kaitie Warner fronts the band. Her singing was honed in dramatic vocal roles at Rogue Opera, Camelot Theatre, and the Collaborative Theatre group. Kaitie continues to use local theater to deepen her vocal range, including 2026 performances in Rogue Valley Symphony’s Waltzes of Love. Of her performance in the 2025 Camelot production City of Angels, the Rogue Valley Times wrote,

“One of their best numbers is sung by Kaitie Warner, who plays Bobbi, a down-and-out singer at the Blue Note cocktail lounge, who once had a thing for PI Stone until he royally messed things up. Well, maybe. As she sings “With Every Breath I Take,” she captures the blues of a real woman who has had her dreams shattered by jealousy and fate.”

Band leader Stephen Gagné, sax and clarinet. Stephen’s original compositions have been featured on movie soundtracks and in 3 PBS oceanographic specials, including Dolphin, where Stephen found his underwater piano playing was much better received by a school of wild dolphins than his singing. He’d attracted an entire school of wild dolphins about 20 miles off the coast of the Bahamas, but they fled immediately after he switched to his underwater vocal mike. He’s stuck with winds and keyboards ever since.             

When Stephen was Bill Graham's head audio engineer at Fillmore East in New York City and on the West Coast, Stephen was influenced by his work with many jazz legends, including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, The Paul Winter Consort, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

Bassist Dru Mahoney and drummer Nate Winner were child prodigies that have played and composed music together since they were 12; Dru won the All-State Oregon Standup Bass Championship at 18. He and Nate founded the Rogue Jazz Syndicate during high school, landing an OSF Green Show performance with their innovative compositions and arrangements of contemporary jazz. With Dru and Nate, the band now spans three generations, inspiring fresh approaches to band arrangements. In addition to Band du Pays swing, they play with the Rogue Jazz Syndicate and the Rogue Jazz Trio.

Craig Martin rounds out our rhythm section with guitar and vocals. Craig has regularly performed at The Wild Goose, La Baguette Music Cafe, and other local venues for decades, often letting the choice of instrument from his extensive collection of guitars decide whether he’ll focus on swing, bossa nova or gypsy jazz at a given show. He too has performed at several OSF Green Shows, opened at Britt for Dwight Yoakam, and accompanied Rogue Valley Musical Theater productions.