MUSICIANS

We are a small team of talented professional musicians with a wide range of skills and experience. We love what we do, and we do it with passion. We look forward to supporting your event with a top-quality musical product that your customers will enjoy and remember.

Amy Bonnett

Lead singer

Amy Bonnett has spent a lifetime performing. As an accomplished flute and piccolo player, she toured Europe with the American Youth Symphonic Band and Chorus. Serving in the U.S. Air Force afforded Amy the opportunity to learn several languages as part of her training. This talent for learning foreign language has
afforded her the opportunity to become the premier lead vocalist for several local German bands since arriving in the Tennessee Valley a dozen years ago.

Amy also is a regular performer with the Twickenham Jazz & Swing Band and co-manager/vocalist for the Cahaba Shrine big band Sentimental Journey.

Joe Bader

Trumpet

Joe Bader: trumpeter, conductor, and educator. Numerous engagements populate Bader’s trumpet performance career including the Charleston Symphony, ASO Brass Quintet, Braves Turner Field Jazz Band, and the Modernaires Big Band. The Atlanta-area native’s 30+ year conducting/teaching roles are highlighted as lead conductor of the Primerica Ken Durham Memorial Band and Chorus in Atlanta and St. Louis, and teaching band and music in the area’s public and private schools.

Since moving to Huntsville, he continued teaching in private schools, leads brass clinics for area public schools and has performed with brass quintets, Oakwood University’s Aeolians, The Huntsville Master Chorale, the Brass Band of Huntsville and conductor of the Huntsville Youth Brass Academy which won their division at the North American Brass Band Association competition in 2024.

Bader has degrees from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, Berea, Ohio, and Indiana University.

Rick Brouillette

Accordion

Rick Brouillette has 42 years of experience playing the accordion from classical, polka, waltz and marches. Rick was formally trained on the accordion in Springfield, Massachusetts and in his late teens/early 20’s was a member of the Springfield Accordion Orchestra. As a young accordion player he competed in several New England states and was professionally rated among his peers. Rick also plays guitar and has a great appreciation for local musicians.

After moving to Alabama, there was very little thought that the accordion could have a viable presence, however he found an awesome opportunity to perform in Oktoberfest bands and present this unique instrument to patrons across the Southeast! A Madison Alabama resident for 28 years, Rick is a graduate of Western New England University.

Jeremy Howe

Tuba (Band Leader)

Jeremy Howe is a tuba player and bass-baritone vocalist with over 30 years of professional experience performing throughout the world. During his twenty-year career as an Army Musician he performed for presidents, on National Public Radio, CNN, and in more parades and ceremonies than he can count.
While serving in assignments throughout the United States and overseas, he has performed with and led a wide variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles ranging from traditional brass quintets and jazz bands to a funk-rock band “Rendezvous Groove” who was a featured ensemble at the 2011 W.C. Handy Festival in Florence, Alabama, and a barbershop quartet “7-Ball”, which won the Army-wide “Ensemble of the Year” award for 2011.
Jeremy was assigned to the Army Materiel Command Band at Redstone Arsenal in 2011 and retired from the US Army in 2013. Since arriving in the Tennessee Valley, Jeremy has performed as a vocal soloist with the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, Huntsville Community Chorus, and in local performances of Handel’s Messiah. Jeremy has stayed active as a tuba player performing the Brass Band of Huntsville, church ensembles, solo recitals, and his own bands Oompah-Calypse and The Funky Pirates Jazz Band.