SONG AND DANCE TEAM JONES & BOYCE

They talk! They sing! They dance! The song-

and-dance team of Jones & Boyce (Brian Jones and

Susan Boyce) celebrates its thirty-first

anniversary this year.

Since 1979, Jones & Boyce has appeared in a

variety of venues, and is well remembered as the

energetic song-and-dance team of the late New

England New Vaudeville Revue. Like the old-time

troupers they pattern themselves after, Brian and

Susan have shared show business experiences

galore. From singing Auld Lang Syne with The

Persuasions on live television at midnight for

Portland Maine's first first-night celebration, to

sharing the stage with Ethel Merman when the

Providence Performing Arts Center was re-

christened on its fiftieth anniversary, the team

has built its act with a classic showbiz approach.

Known for fearless a cappella singing, Brian and Susan collaborate on computer-

based arrangements to achieve their vocal effects. With humor and timing, they

bring to life tunes from the great American songbook, and have sung at a cappella

festivals, coffeehouses, vaudeville shows and new year's eve celebrations.

Tap dance skills brought the pair together after college, but they grew to love

ballroom and social dance, and continue to follow favorite bands to local clubs

and dance halls. In period costume and choreographed routines they have danced in

ragtime reviews, traditional jazz concerts, dance festivals, ballrooms and

legitimate theater.

Jones & Boyce In Concert is the team's full-length entertainment, featuring

radio comedy, a cappella singing, virtuosic dancing and a dry wit that makes them

family and audience favorites. Vocals include tin-pan-alley and novelty songs, an

opera spoof, a ragtime medley, an audience sing-along, Hawaiian music (with

ukuleles), even a Cuban song in Spanish. Dances include jazz and rhythm tap, a

classic soft shoe, a dramatic waltz, an exhibition one-step, a comic mambo, even a

hot jitterbug from the dance hall floor.

From Gilbert and Sullivan to rock and roll, Jones & Boyce bring live song and

dance to the eyes and ears of the 21st century with, in the words of June Vail,

"that knock-yr-socks off punch that makes them a hard act to follow."