Friday, May 16
The Center for the Arts presents
Cabaret Theater
Friday Night Showcase
8:00PM, Reserved Theater Seating $15
Reserved Cabaret seating $20 per person
(Floor seating at a cabaret table-for-4)
Join us for a very special evening of cabaret theater, song and dance
from some of Nevada County's most talented performers featuring:
Beth Jayne, Denise Dennis, Jamal Walker,
Tami Cooke, Noreen Barnett,
Nicole Solarez,
Mark Vieaux, Wayne Powers, AirAligned,
Salsa Sierra
Beth Jayne is originally from Los Angeles where she was trained in voice, dance, acting, cello, and musical comedy. She received her B.A. degree from UCLA in theater. Beth has traveled throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico performing in many prestigious nightclubs and hotels. She has performed at Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue as Slue Foot Sue, and she was the featured singer in 2 Folie Bergere productions, where she met her husband George. She has appeared in Bally's Reno production of Hello Hollywood Hello where she danced and sang for 6 years. While in Reno, she performed in A Chorus Line as Sheila. She starred in Community Players production of Bye Bye Birdie for which she was nominated for a 1990 Elly Award and the Foothill Theater Company's production of Guys and Dolls, for which she won the 1990 Elly Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. She appeared in A...My Name is Alice, Dracula, the musical, and Sha La La all Off Broad Street productions. She has performed her one woman show Living in the Direction of My Dream with the Ken Hardin Trio. She and her husband own and operate Sierra Dance Institute. Beth also gives private instruction in voice.
Wayne Powers moved to Nevada County in 2001 and is a resident of Lake Wildwood. Wayne’s accomplishments include numerous concerts and singing engagements throughout our community. He has performed on the Twin Cities vocal team for 6 years, dividing his time as a percussionist/drummer and singer. He also has a tribute show to Frank Sinatra. He made his debut in Guys and Dolls and then landed the roll of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. Wayne is the owner and executive producer of his locally based Powernett Productions, a vocal performance company that give stage time to local performers that need a stage. Wayne will be performing live on the main stage at the Las Vegas Hilton, in the USA World Showcase competition Memorial day, May 21, for the $100,000 and can be voted for on the Global Wecast that evening.
Denise Dennis has always enjoyed singing. She began singing in Jr. high school and also sang in high school in a madrigal competition choir. She has been married for 21 years to her husband, Adam and has four beautiful children who love to sing and dance too. She loves to sing country music, especially anything Trisha Yearwood has recorded. She currently sings in her church choir and has had the privilege for the last three years of singing in the Sierra Dance Institute's June show.
Joe Simms is Co-Artistic Director of AirAligned and is one of the Groups most dynamic performers. He started dancing in the year 2000 with Natina Pistone. In 2002, he joined The Movement Alliance where he was a Principal Dancer for two years. Joe has been a principal performer and soloist with AirAligned for over six years. Joe has a background in Martial Arts with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and Jujitsu. He has been studying Modern Dance, Jazz and Ballet. Master classes include; Velocity in Seattle Washington, Conduit Dance Company in Portland Oregon, The Edge in Los Angeles, aerial intensives with Ingrid Hoffman at Focus Fish L.A. and Isadora Duncan Dance Company. Joe has completed two formal auditions for the L’ecole Nationale De Cirque in Montreal where he scored in the top 10 percent. Joe is also a licensed Pilates instructor, personal trainer and has begun training for work as a trigger point therapist. Joe owns Pilates Body a personal training and bodywork studio in Nevada City.
Dominique Del Chiaro of Salsa Sierra teaches and performs salsa dance in Grass Valley and through out California. Her focus in class is on creating a fun, positive and invigorating environment for students to become successful in learning the structure of salsa dance. She is currently performing with Yemaya Salsa, a premiere salsa dance team based in Sacramento, as well as starting a Rueda performance team locally. She returned from Cuba in early January and is implementing Cuban style into her salsa dance classes. There are well over 100 students per month currently taking beginning through advanced classes. Dominique’s vision is to create a dynamic salsa dance community in and around Nevada County. Her partner for tonight's showcase is David Romo
David Romo is a native of Chile, and loves dancing Salsa. He is currently on the Salsabomba performance team in Grass Valley. David brings an authentic Latin flare to his performance and social dancing.
Nicole Solarez is a Grass Valley native and spent much of her childhood performing with George and Beth Jayne's Sierra Dance Institute as a dancer and a singer. She currently resides in Roseville California and is a hairstylist/ makeup artist and aspires to be a professional singer. "I'm thrilled to be back home to perform for the community I love!"

Tami Cooke has been involved with music since she was a youngster. Her great encourager was her grandfather. Tami has sung in both school and church choirs and has been on two albums. She toured with the Continental Singers and Orchestra in 1985. Tami currently is a member of her church vocal team, connected with PowerNett Productions and is now honored to be a part of the Sultry Ladies.
Jamal Walker has been a professional singer for the last 20 years and is known for his smooth vocal style. He has been known to sing just about any style, including Motown, jazz, gospel, christen and contemporary Top 40. He also operates his own professional disc jockey service called, My Way Productions providing music for just about any occasion. www.mywayproductions.com He frequently performs about Nevada County with the George Sousa Band and is the lead vocalist for the reggae band Mystsfa.
Noreen Barnett has been singing since the age of three, where she began her career by singing in a local church choir in the Bay Area. She sang with several performing groups while at UC Davis and traveled to Europe with the UC Davis Chamber Singers as a soloist. She then sang with The Lamplighters in San Francisco for two years before attending USC, where she completed her Master’s degree with the USC Opera. Some of her roles there were Zerlina in “Don Giovanni, Papagena in The Magic Flute, Mrs. Wordsworth in Turn of the Screw, and Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Theif. Since moving to Nevada County 11 years ago she has sung at many local churches. She was part of the Music in the Mountains chorus for 2 years, and she has directed several church choirs. Lately, she can be heard singing at many local venues in Nevada and Placer Counties with Sisters in Song - a female singing trio. She also continues to sing as a soloist with PowerNett Productions – a local event planning company she helped found in 2004. She lives in Penn Valley with her husband and five daughters.
Mark Vieaux is a performing songwriter with a broad range of influences thanks to his Chicago roots, blending jazz, blues, folk, pop, soul, rock, punk, and alt-country into what some may call 'Americana'. To Mark, categories are unnecessary..."it's all just music". Delivered in a style he playfully calls 'bang & shout', Mark sings lyrics that cover the spectrum of human emotions, but mostly about love...good love, bad love, new love, no love, and on. When you get down to life's essence, "love is everything we live for".
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