Guest Vocalists

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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.