He teaches music workshops at mainland ‘ukulele festivals including The Wine Country Ukulele Festival, The West Coast Ukulele Retreat in Monterey California, and at the Oregon Coast Ukulele Festival.

In 2004 he produced the legendary “UkeFestWest” festival in Santa Cruz, and at that event he created the “Ukes for Kids” program that now has given away hundreds of ukuleles to children and teachers.

Andy now resides on Hawai’i Island, and teaches ‘ukulele at Kua O Ka La Charter School and leads kanikapilas and workshops at Keoki Kahumoku’s Hawaiian Lifestyle Music Camps in Pahala. Also since moving to Hawai’i he has started the “Puna ‘Ukulele & Kanikapila Association” (PUKA), conducts monthly ukulele workshops in Hawi and teaches classes in ‘ukulele, blues styles and music theory.

As a freelance musician, he has worked with national and local artists. Highlights of his career include appearances with the Temptations, Ray Charles, Gladys Knight, Fifth Dimension and local artists which include Loyal Garner, Dick Jensen and Carole Kai. He has also been involved in musical theater, Las Vegas Magic Shows with Comedian Robert Klein and classical endeavors as well as his own Bill Noble Trio.

Bill is both a leader and a composer and exudes a serious presence as an established, mature player. You will see Bill on tenor, alto, soprano saxophones; flute and clarinet, but any instrument that will help express The musical ideas of The moment may be called into play. Bill received his formal education from Texas State University (BA 1972) and was a graduate assistant a The University of Hawaii, Manoa Campus, Honolulu while working on his Masters Degree in Music. He also Taught at Leeward Community College and was a high school music Teacher QT Waiakea High School and Hilo Intermediate School in Hilo, Hawaii.

Credentials
Jazz Vocalist Cleo Laine
Roy Bolger
Warren Covington
Pied Pipers

Concerts
Small Ensembles and
Other Big Band Concerts

Festivals
Honolulu Jazz Festival
Waikoloa Dolphin Days Festival

Clubs and Jazz Rooms
Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel (opened hotel) 1994 To 2008
Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows (opened hotel) – 6 years
Hilton Hotel (Operated by Hyatt during employment) – 1 year
Marriott (Operated by Sheraton Hotels during employment) – 2 years

Private Parties and Corporate Clients
The wedding of former San Francisco 49er Player: Steve Young
Pepsi Corporation – Appeared with Ray Charles
IBM, NBA All Star’s, HBO
Played for former President Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter

Recent Tours
August 2009 Toured with Coaster, Drifters and Platters in celebrating Hawaii’s Anniversary of Statehood.

Recent CD’s Performed On
Henry K. Allen’s cd “East of The Sun, West of The Moon”
Augusï 14, Saturday-2010 Temptations/Four Tops Summer Tour in Hawaii, Waikoloa Marriot Naupaka Ballroom.

In 2003, he moved to the Big Island of Hawaii, but he has been returning to his old home for gigs and recording sessions. He is a top call bassist for the best bands on the island, as well as a teacher, bandleader, and composer.

A talented vocal and musical arranger as well as a composer, Ms. Thal put on her “arranging hat” for the first Lava Jam Band CD “In the Beginning.” Additionally she played violin and percussion throughout the disc, which contains original songs about the natural history of the Hawaiian Islands. Sherri also played violin and sang on the all original, island folk CD, “This Life” by Intowishin’. She co-penned the title track as well as “Touch Me Gently” with Cynthia Warner. With her partner, Brent Magstadt, Sherri co-produced a four song, original music EP entitled “The Elementalz,” which features her song, “Hello.”

Sherri has been an accomplished performer of classical, jazz, rock, and acoustic music since 1980. Her venues have run the gamut from the San Francisco Bay Area Chamber Choir to guest violin player with Michelle Shocked, as well as a choral soprano in the University of Hawaii’s performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in March of 2011. Sherri has graced the Hilo Palace Theater stage for roles in the musicals “Hair” and “Gypsy.” Currently an exceptional music educator in both the public (HAAS PCS Elementary General Music, grades 1-6) and private sectors (voice, violin, theory), Ms. Thal continues to perform, compose and arrange with her partner, Brent Magstadt, in their group, The Elementalz, and on her own, with genres ranging from Classical to Country Folk and from instrumentals suitable for film and T.V. to four part vocal harmony.

Jr Volcano Choy currently serves on the Artist Roster of Gateway to the Arts, an academic program that brings the Performing Arts to participating schools in the Western Pa./Pittsburgh area (and for which he was awarded Artist of the Year in 2002).

At his home-base in Hawaii, he is the Musical Director for the Volcano Art Center Jazz Ensemble currently in their second season of Live Jazz Performances featuring World-Class Jazz Artists.

Volcano has participated either as a Clinician, Artist in Residence or Instructor at the following:

1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa
2. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
3. Little Rock University, Pa.
4. Penn State University, Pa.
5. Berkeley School of Music, Boston, Ma.

Trumpet Studies/Jazz Studies/Improvisation for all Instruments/Ages and Levels

Please visit: www.volcanochoy.com for Performance Bio etc.

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After college, Kelly went abroad for a year – living primarily in Denmark. He met and played with then-expatriate Thad Jones, who became a major musical influence on him. One of his good friends and former band mate in Scandinavia is Ola Bengtsson, professor at the Stockholm Conservatory
of Music.

When Kelly returned to the San Francisco Bay Area from Europe, he was hired as an instructor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He taught harmony, theory, arranging and ear training. After two years, he decided that teaching was not for him. He took a sabbatical, from which he never returned, to play on cruise ships in the Caribbean. After a year of cruise ships, he returned to dry land and went back to work for Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. The Camp sent Kelly overseas again to teach in southern Germany. He also traveled around Europe as The Camp’s recruiter.

In 1985, after many years away, Kelly decided to return to the San Francisco Bay Area and began establishing himself as a local musician. He worked in almost every major and minor venue in the San Francisco Bay Area for the next twenty-four years until the present day. His list of San Francisco venues include: the Fillmore, the Great American Music Hall, the Herbst Theater, the Castro Theater, the Luther Burbank Center, the Lesher Theater, and the Moscone Center.

Kelly has performed with Thad Jones, Keely Smith, Zakiya Hooker, Michael Manring, Kim Nalley among many others. He’s flown around the country to be Musical Director for singers such as Shawn Ryan and Russ Lorenson, and also is the “House Musical Director” for the THE RRAZZ ROOM, THE PREMIERE NIGHTCLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO. He recently was Musical Director for the Joan Rivers Show in San Francisco. Kelly’s performances have taken him all over the United States, as well as in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, Tunisia, Canada, and England.