Christine Buff-Schläpfer; bass
Urnäsch, AR

She is the leader of the band in Alpstää-Nixe.
She has grown up with five brothers and sisters on a farm in Waldstatt, AR.
For six years Christine played as a bassist with the orchestra “Waldstättergruess”.

Christine has three children and lives with her family in Urnäsch, AR.

E-Mail:  christine.buff@bluewin.ch

 
Silvia Inauen-Bollhalder; dulcimer & piano
Appenzell, AI

Silvia comes from Toggenburg.
She has grown up in Unterwasser.
During her childhood, she already enjoyed taking piano and dulcimer lessons. Her first performances were with the “Starchebächler Husmusig”.
Love led her to Appenzell, and now she works together with her husband who is involved with agricultural business.
The two of them have three children.

Madeleine Sager-Schläpfer; accordion & piano
Stettfurt, TG

Our “Jodlerin” has grown up in Waldstatt and Herisau.
As a child Madleine took piano lessons, and later on she started to play the accordion. The qualified kindergarten teacher sang for seven years in the “Saumchörli” in Herisau, for four years she was in the formation “Echo vom Tannenberg” and during twenty years she was  active in the orchestra “Waldstättergruess” .
Today she lives with her husband and two children in Stettfurt TG.

E- Mail: madeleine.sager@bluewin.ch

Susanna Wettstein Gätzi; accordion, piano & bass
Gonten, AI

Susanna has spent her childhood and youth in Urnäsch, AR.
There she also took piano lessons. During her education at the teachers training college, Susanna started to learn bass. For ten years she played in the Appenzellerformation, “Trogner Föremusig”. At the age of twenty, she discovered her love for the accordion and took some lessons by Brigitte Schmid-Turrian.
Susanna was one of the members establishing the "Frauestriichmusig", where she played for eleven years.
Today she lives with her husband and three children at the foot of the Kronberg, where they manage a farm.

E-Mail:  susannaw@gmx.ch