KEEN snowboarder, National Parks and Wildlife Service tour guide and Cooma resident Teagan Symons has always loved music but never in her wildest dreams did she ever think of taking up singing and joining a band.

Not only at the age of 35 has she done just that, but she actually fronts a local band ,The Pingers , as lead vocalist - and the outfit has just released its first album.

"It's all a bit crazy," Teagan says.

"I really just yell, not sing, as I've never had any singing lessons or anything, but the boys tell me my yelling voice is becoming more of a singing voice with practice, so that is encouraging."

Teagan heads the fun four-piece punk band with two members, drummer Steven O'Bryan and Teagan coming from Cooma and two - guitarist Casey Been from Jindabyne and bass player Ollie Benson from Kalkite.

The foursome released its first EP with eight songs, seven of which are originals, during a jam-packed three-band concert at the Lake Jindabyne Hotel on June 1.

It was recorded at Core Studios with Nik Carpenter on the Gold Coast.

"The album is called Pink Mitzi and is available on all of the streaming channels now, with CDs to be printed as soon as we have the money to do so," Teagan said.

"We were hoping to raise enough money from the show and merchandise sales to be able to print the CDs and also get back to the studio on the Gold Coast to record another one.

"Basically we are tee-shirt salesmen pretending to be a band. Seriously though, there isn't much money in music, so we all have to have other jobs."

For Teagan, that other job is as a tour guide with National Parks and Wildlife Service at Yarrangobilly Caves. She also teaches yoga and chair yoga at Werri-Nina Centre, which runs programs for people older than 65.

She originally came to the Snowy Monaro to work in the snowfields, then later returned to care for her nan in Cooma. She and Steven, who works at Rhythm boardshop and mows lawns in summer, bought a house in Cooma four-years-ago.

Ollie works at First Tracks in Jindabyne and Casey at Lake Jindabyne Hotel.

The band came into being in May last year when Casey, who had stayed with Teagan while working a ski season together a decade before, returned to the area and asked her why she wasn't playing music given she was in a relationship with drummer Steven, a local muso who had had experience playing in heavy metal bands and had been around the open mics.

"That had never occurred to me. I had always loved music and gone to shows, like in 2007, there was a lot going on at The Station, Banjo, Brumby Bar and LJ, and listened to music, but I have zero musical talent," she says.

"I tried to learn the piano and the guitar but failed. Casey was saying, you've gotta start a band, so we started jamming together, he brought three songs, I started my yelling aka singing and we got a bit serious and thought we had better find a bass player.

"Ollie lives at Kalkite and it is great to have a second girl around especially when we are travelling to gigs. She's actually a guitarist who we conned into playing bass and is the one in charge of all our design work, which is amazing.

"That's the thing. It's not just about the four of us, but about all the people who are around to help. Like Laurent Steiger, our sound guy on launch night, who was amazing. He's done a lot of work in Wollongong where he came from with punk and metal bands and he gets us."

Teagan, who says she has found some great singing lesson material online, joins in the songwriting process "so I get to yell what I write", while the musicians work on the music. "It is all fun and simple. Our best song only has two chords - D and C."

The band chose punk as its genre because the members like it and it is simple and happy.

"I've always been into punk and the boys have played heavy metal and hard core bands. Punk is a bit softer than heavy metal, more basic. It is synonymous with snowboarders and obviously there are a lot of snowboarders in our local area," Teagan says.

"Basically we like happy music, trying not to focus on derogatory or depressive stuff. We have a lot of fun and run amok and like our audiences to do the same."

"Casey is the only one allowed to have a mohawk and we all dress in whatever we feel like. It is such fun, I can't believe this is real life."

The band, she says, won't be quite as busy in winter as its members want time to go snowboarding, but is ideally located between Sydney and Melbourne which makes getting to city gigs easy. It has a local gig planned in September at Travellers Rest in Cooma.

"I just want to play punk rock and snowboard in Japan and Canada. That would be the dream now," she says.