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About Russ:

 

Russ stays busy. As a full time, professional musician, he does approximately 300 performances each year.
 

He received his formal musical education from Berklee College of Music , the New England Conservatory, and has studied voice privately with Annamaria Saritelli-DiPanni.

 

Russ has performed many different styles of music in his many years as a singer and guitarist, in venues ranging from nightclubs, to the stage, to the concert hall.

 

Russ has focused exclusively on entertaining seniors on a full time basis for the past fourteen years. References are available upon request.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Lifetime of Performing:

As a kid growing up in the 1960's, putting on a show for family.

 

IIn the early 1970's, in a band, working night clubs, ,playing country music and

1950's  rock & roll "oldies but goodies" (That's Russ on the far right)

 

From the late 1970's to the early 1990's, working in a band sometimes 7 nights per week in nightclubs, doing it all: country music,

50's & 60's oldies but goodies, and some contemporary top 40 music as well.

(That's Russ in the upper left)

Doing a concert recital of classical vocal music in the 1980's.

As an opera singer, as the villan Baron Scarpia in a production of Puccini's Tosca in the 1990's.

(Bel Canto Opera production, shown with soprano Cecilia Schiano Rodi as Tosca)

2000 and beyond: as a church musician and soloist. (Shown here in the year 2013)

And Now.....

Since 2011: Entertaining senior citizens with a live show consisting of an upbeat, eclectic blend of popular music from the 1950's, 1960's,  and 1970's, including country music.

                                                     Photo by Brenna Gantt 

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