Shelley Oliver Tap Dancers Christmas show

The Shelley Oliver Tap Dancers with The David Leonhardt Jazz Group in a montage of their popular and exciting Christmas show at The Randolph County's Center for the Arts. These internationally renowned performers put a new spin on yule time favorites. Dancers Shelley Oliver, Rebekkah Brown, Jeremy Arnold, Jenny Peters, and Emily Newman. David Leonhardt Piano, Nancy Reed vocals, Matthew Parrish bass, Jay Rattman reeds, Paul Wells drums. SHELLEY OLIVER: CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• artistic director of the Shelley Oliver Tap Dancers for 15 years 1994 to present

• performed with the legends of the tap world including Gregory Hines,
Jimmy Slyde, Chuck Green, Honi Coles, & Savion Glover 1985-2007

• guest soloist with the River City Brass, the nation's premier brass orchestra 2008

• appeared on television in "Great Performances" with Gregory Hines & Savion Glover 1989

• winning tap dancer on the original Star Search 1985

• performed in Europe, China, the Caribbean, Canada and the United States 1985 to present

• recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Dance Educator (Lehigh Valley College Consortium)

• produced a series of 7 Music for Tap Dancer CDs, international distribution

• on faculty at Muhlenberg College, director of the Muhlenberg Tap Ensemble 1993 to present

• founding member of renowned Manhattan Tap, international touring group 1986-1991

David Leonhardt bio --Career Highlights Twenty year with saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman: arranging and playing on four CDs, international tours. 1988-2008
Four year as musical director for jazz vocalist Jon Hendricks: international tours, jazz festivals, radio and TV broadcasts. 1983-1987
President and founder of Big Bang Records with eighteen CDs as a leader. 1993 to present.
Fifteen years leading The David Leonhardt Jazz Group a concert ensemble with hundreds of performances: theaters, Universities, Colleges, festivals, arts organizations US, Canada and Europe. 1993-2008
Twelve years freelance experience in New York City. Broadway to the Today Show, jazz clubs to dance halls, Bar Mitzvahs and weddings to cabaret clubs and Lincoln Center, jingles to jazz records. 1980-1992
Twenty years performing with legendary Tap Dancers. Musical director for Manhattan Tap and The Shelley Oliver Tap Dancers including National and European tours, television and DVDs. 1987 to 2008
Decades of experiences as a jazz educator in universities, colleges, clinics and workshops. Ten years of presenting "Jazz For Kids" an interactive children's program.
First jazz experience playing piano as a teenager with jazz educator Jamey Aebersold in concerts, clubs and school presentations in Louisville, KY. 1974-1980
First professional engagement at the age of 14 in a teenage rock band. First road experience with a southern rock band touring Dixie age 16. 1970-1976
This project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts On Tour, a program developed and funded by The Heinz Endowments; The William Penn Foundation; The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and Administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

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Music

Tags:

• tap dance
• shelley oliver
• Christmas Dancing
• jazz
• Leonhardt
• piano
• Choreography Theatre