On a recent Friday night, a twentysomething woman donning a fluffy pink boa sat in a chair perched on the main bar as two bartenders fed her Jell-O shooters in honor of her birthday. Later in the evening, an older couple danced on the bar to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

Unlike Mill Avenue hot spot the Library Bar & Grill, where the bartenders and servers monopolize the bar with their slick MTV-wannabe dance moves, the customers appear to be the show at the Swamp Stomp. Expect to find employees on the bar as well. In fact, a slew of female employees flooded the bar when a favorite from the Charlie Daniels Band, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," blasted through the speakers.

I like that you can dance on the bar, says Anne Jensen, 24, of Scottsdale. I think this is really fun and different for Scottsdale. It's not very Scottsdale to me. There's some very non-Scottsdale people here.

Jensen isn't kidding. The bar is filled with an eclectic crowd ranging from students to grandparents. The bar may be attracting a wide range of people because of its atmosphere.

The Swamp Stomp has a forest- meets-trailer-park feel with a mixture of moss and hay hanging from its ceiling. Customers are prohibited from smoking in the bar because of the abundant supply of hay decorating the bar. There's patio furniture spread throughout the bar a la Mickey's Hangover; beer cans and colorful strings of lights illuminate the setting, similar to Giligin's and the Shady Grove, while random items such as a bird cage and a hammock hang from the ceiling. The bathrooms are also a hoot. Shower curtains serve as doors in the stalls, like Tempe's Dos Gringos Trailer Park. There's a stick of chalk that hangs from the side of the stall for people to leave their mark or write juvenile scribblings like "Jen loves Pete 4-Ever."

The bar also offers interesting specialty drinks, such as the Swamp Sex (a rum- and almond-flavored drink mixed with passion fruit juice served in a plastic green alligator cup with a straw that lights up), the Alligator Tear Drop (a melon-flavored shooter) and the Vodka Headhunter (fruit juice, coconut and rum). Although the bar doesn't serve food, it does have an old-fashioned popcorn machine in case you get the late-night munchies.

The bar, which has been open a month, sticks out like a sore thumb among the more typical Scottsdale clubs.

Bar manager Marcus Bourland says it's that uniqueness that will draw people to his bar.

You can do something here that you can't do at 95 percent of the bars, he says. A lot of people like to get up on the bar and dance.

Customer Jessica Mahoney agrees. I love it, she says. The atmosphere is great. It reminds me of three bars put together.

The Swamp Stomp

Where: 10201 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale
Hours: 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Thursday through Sunday
Drink special: Two-for-one specials on beer and liquor from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday through Sunday
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