Talent
Shelley Keelor
Shelley Keelor is an award-winning actress and international soloist. She has performed with orchestras and big bands around the world. Including with The Istanbul State Symphony, Jordan Thomas Odyssey, originally formed in NY and now based in Florida and, recently with LCO: Orlando’s Chamber Pops Orchestra in her debut at the Dr. Phillips Center.
She also stars at theatres across the country in leading roles. Some of her favorites include Trish/Kinky Boots, Gladys/Memphis, Beggar Woman/Sweeney Todd, MNM’s streamed production of Closer Than Ever, and much more. Favorite touring shows include touring with renowned countertenor Terry Barber in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Les Misérables Synopsis in Concert.
Shelley also enjoys performing her One-Woman-Shows around South Florida!
Charles Jones
Charles Jones has been singing and acting on the Treasure Coast for over twenty-five years. A very powerful singer with a four-octave range, he is equally at home singing many different genres of music: Jazz, R & B, Standards, Classic Rock, and Broadway Favorites just to name a few. Charles is the former lead singer/keyboardist of independent Grammy-considered recording artist, “Sub Groove”.
Charles currently fronts the “Charles Jones Trio – a jazz and R & B outfit. He is one of the principal lead singers of “The New York Connection”, originally based in New York, and now in Florida, and is well known for being a National Anthem singer throughout South Florida. He has sung for numerous professional sports teams and official events, including the “New York Mets” Major League Baseball Team, at “Clover Park Stadium”, their spring training facility.
Charles is a high energy performer who engages a crowd like few people can. He combines passionate, visual entertainment with the art of singing. Great sound and energy are his trademarks!
Dawn Derow
A New Yorker by way of Cape Cod, MA, Dawn Derow has been delighting audiences with her eclectic repertoire–from opera to jazz, pop to Broadway–for 15 years. The award-winning singer began her professional training at the Boston Conservatory, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in music with a Vocal Performance and Opera emphasis. Dawn has performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and debuted multiple solo shows at New York’s top clubs, including 54 Below, Birdland Jazz Club, the Laurie Beechman Theater, and The Green Room 42. A regular guest with the Cape Cod Symphony, led by conductor Jung Ho-Park, Dawn has become a favorite at Cotuit Center for the Arts and performed at venues throughout the Cape, including Tin Pan Alley and Post Office Cafe in her beloved Provincetown.
Dawn’s 2014 album with renowned guitarist Sean Harkness, Music 4 Two, earned a MAC nomination for Best CD. A year later, Dawn won her first MAC award for Revolution, a duo show with Kathleen France. In 2016, the Bistro Awards recognized Dawn as Outstanding Female Vocalist for Legit: A Classical Cabaret, an ambitious show that made full use of her classical training. Shifting back to the Great American Songbook, Dawn won her second MAC award (Best Female Vocalist) in 2018 for My Ship: Songs from 1941, a critically acclaimed show directed by the late Barry Levitt (lovingly known as The Maestro). In 2021, Dawn debuted her Eydie Gorme tribute show at Birdland to rave reviews (a show she reprised at 54 Below in 2022) and won her third MAC award for the album version of My Ship: Songs from 1941. In 2023, Dawn took My Ship across the Atlantic, selling out the Pheasantry in London. Dawn is known in the entertainment community for being a versatile singer who can move smoothly from one vocal genre to the next with ease!
DANNY BACHER
Danny Bacher is an award-winning singer, saxophonist, songwriter and entertainer in the fullest sense of the term. He’s not only a master of the demanding soprano sax, but combines his virtuosity on the instrument with a talent for comedy and narrative storytelling. He’s a smooth and cool individual who makes hot jazz and pop, cut from the cloth of the great Louis Prima and Mel Torme. Bacher swings with pizzazz, scats and sings with a smoky voice, all adding to his compelling stage presence. Stephen Holden in The New York Times said of Bacher that he’s a “prodigiously talented musical preservationist,” adding what Bacher knows in his bones is that “the secret of serious fun is not to take it too seriously.”
In addition to a solid career in jazz, cabaret and pop with a penchant for rare gems, and classic standards from the Great American Songbook, Bacher has also worked as an actor, comedian, dancer and writer, touring internationally with his original works. Along with a busy touring schedule and working at venues such as the Blue Note, Birdland, Feinstein’s 54 Below, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Town Hall, he has performed several times at Carnegie Hall and most recently alongside the legendary Michael Feinstein. Bacher has released two studio albums as a leader, “Swing That Music!” and “Still Happy” on the Whaling City Sound label. A recent recipient of the prestigious Margaret Whiting Award, Bacher was also nominated for best male vocalist in the 2019 National Jazz Times reader’s poll along with Harry Connick, John Pizzarelli, and Michael Buble, and in 2020 and 2021 placed in the top 4 in the country alongside Kurt Elling, Gregory Porter and the legendary Tony Bennett. He also received a 2023 Bistro Award for outstanding achievement as a singer/instrumentalist in the New York entertainment community. Danny was personally selected by the 98 year old jazz legend, Terry Gibbs, as the vocalist to record his Songbook. The record was completed early this year and is slated for a June 2023 release. Bacher is also currently working on his forthcoming Harry Nilsson recording project.
When not performing, Danny dedicates his time to arts education in his home state of New Jersey. As part of the nationally-recognized Educational Arts Team, he teaches arts-integrated curricula to a variety of grade levels, as well as acting, theater improv, magic and puppetry. Along with his brother, Danny was the co-creator of the beloved after-school puppet series “The Backyard Players” (2008-2012), and has helped to run Camp Liberty, an arts-based summer program in Jersey City, for the past decade.
For more info about Danny, please visit: www.dannybachermusic.com
