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Danielle Roby holds a Bachelor in Vocal Music from Old Dominion University and a Masters in Education from The University of Virginia. She recently retired as Senior Coordinator of Music and Theatre for Norfolk Public Schools with thirty-three years of service. Prior to leading the department, she served as both Elementary Music Teacher and High School Choral Director. Her Norview High School Choirs scored consistent Superior Ratings at VMEA Assessment and numerous 1st Place awards in competitions held in Atlanta, Myrtle Beach, Maryland and Virginia. She has conducted many all city and regional choirs, and presented clinics at the state level for the Virginia Music Educators Association. She is currently supervising vocal music student teachers for Old Dominion University.  She has recently performed with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra as host and soloist for the Young Peoples Concert series, and loves performing with the TWW Little Big Band! . 

After 16 years in New York City, Annamarie Smith-Butz moved back to Tidewater in 1999 with her husband Wolf.  They met at the New York Swing Dance Society, when Wolf asked her, “Shall we dance?”  Having covered 28,000 miles playing Eliza in the national tour of My Fair Lady and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Annamarie also starred in such theatrical productions as Call Me Madame, Can Can, Shenandoah, Oliver! and The King And I.  She traveled around the world on Holland America Cruise Lines as a headline entertainer for two world cruises.  She produced and performed a one-woman show at the Village Gate in New York.  She is Past President of the Board of Directors of Virginia Musical Theatre and when Annamarie is not pursuing her love of music, she works as a program manager in the IT industry.    

Michael Anthony LeMelle is an American actor, producer, singer, composer, film maker, voice talent and director. 

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Huntington, NY, Frank Cubillo is the "voice” and "energy” behind "FRANK SINGS FRANK”, a unique Frank Sinatra Tribute singing/entertainment act that has been very popular in the Hampton Roads area of South-Eastern Virginia for more than a decade. 

Frank retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2009 (as a full colonel) after serving over 37 years active duty. He's been singing all his life and grew up highly influenced by the music of the 40's,50's and 60's…Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Nat King Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald records were always playing in his home on Long Island. Frank sings constantly: for the past 22 years he's been a cantor and tenor in his church choir, and sings with a harmony vocal group consisting of 3 men and 2 women called "Fond Memories”. Frank is a self-taught Frank Sinatra aficionado, constantly studying and rehearsing Sinatra’s impressive musical body of work, and who has, over several decades, learned to sing (by heart) and perform over 385 of Sinatra's hits.

BJ grew up in Virginia Beach, VA where he was a member of the Virginia Youth Symphony Orchestra and other community programs. While in these groups, he performed in various places nationally as well as internationally including China and Greece. He went on to study at James Madison University as a music education, cello performance, and music industry major. In addition to his cello studies, he began his singing career at JMU as a soloist with the all male a capella group Exit 245.  

  After James Madison University BJ moved to New York City gigging as a free-lance cellist. BJ also became a faculty member at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan. There, where he taught lessons, coached sectionals, and performed in faculty recitals. 

    Since then, BJ has pioneered different ways to express the art of singing and playing the cello at the same time. He spends time performing as a solo artist and assembling diverse ensembles to carry out his vision of mixing classical, jazz, and pop music in hopes of breaking the barriers between the genres.