 Al Boudreau
Born and raised in Boston Massachusetts, Al has been playing professionally since 1957. Heavily influenced by the big band era and the drumming of Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson, his first group was a small jazz combo which played around the Boston area until the advent of the rock and roll period which began in 1964.
After bouncing back and forth between the jazz and the pop bands he started touring the country with a top forty show band named "The Great Road". This group toured for six years through thirty states and three countries, opening for acts such as Ray Stevens and The Righteous Brothers.
The next pop group called "Boston Post Road" toured for three years around the states until Al joined an internationally touring group known as "Goulet and Company". The group played shows in Spain and England, one of the highlights taking place in London at the Talk of the Town Theatre in 1977 for the "Queens Silver Jubilee".
After a two year break from pop music Al came back
onto the music scene again in 1980 going back to his original love....Jazz.
A very short time later he began working with people such as
Dick Johnson, Ray Santisi, Carol Sloane, Herb Pomeroy, Rebecca Parris,
Joe Bucci and Gray Sargent.
Since 1985 Al has been working the East coast of the country from Maine to Key West. Wintering in the Naples/Fort Myers area for 12 years, he shared the bandstand with some of our country's finest jazz players such as Ira Sullivan, John Laporta, Gene DiStatio, Steve Usher and the Artie Shaw Band.
Al is an accomplished drummer and percussionist who also does vocal work with his wife, singer Barbara Boudreau.
Barbara Boudreau
Originally from the Midwest, Barbara has enjoyed a busy performance life. Singing in public performances since a very early age, she has acquired many hours of exposure in several different genres of music.
Her history of chorale work is extensive, spanning all educational years and including five years under Lowell Hickman in both the Chorale and small jazz vocal group at Montana State University from 1978 to 1983, groups which toured to China and the Philippines in 1983, and afterwards sang in the Bozeman Symphony Chorale also under Hickman.
She sang for the Hiroshima Symphony Chorale while living in Hiroshima, Japan, and was featured as a soloist with the Hiroshima Firemen's Brass Band for their 30th Anniversary Concert in 1992.
Barbara also has musical performance experience, singing leads in the musicals "Oklahoma", Fiddler On The Roof", and
"Annie Get Your Gun" in the early 1980's.
In the Naples/Fort Myers area, she sang with various
musicians including Joel Benefiel and Stu Shelton,
and performed with the Artie Shaw Band with her husband and accomplished drummer, Alvin Boudreau. They performed at the Harborside Convention Hall in Ft. Myers for the New Year's Eve Downtown Countdown Strutter's Ball, sharing the stage with Lindy Hop dancing great Norma Miller.
She also sang with the Naples Philharmonic Center Chorale under the direction of Erich Kunzel and James Cochran
Since 1988, she has been concentrating on jazz, beginning in nightclubs and hotels in Japan. Most of her current performances are with a small jazz trio or quartet. Presently living in Gloucester, Massachusetts, she has performed at such clubs as Ryles in Cambridge, Scullers and other local Boston area spots with artists such as Dick Johnson, Herb Pomeroy, Tony Zano, Gray Sargent, Joe Bucci, and Paul Fontaine.
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