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JOHN FANNELL performs at comedy clubs and colleges throughout the country and has appeared in concert with Bret Butler, Weird Al Yankovic and the Righteous Brothers. He offers his quirky view of marriage, family, dating, and life in general, spiced with off the wall guitar sketches guaranteed to make you laugh John made a cameo appearance in the indie feature "Forever Brothers".
Janet Wapaha is a proud Okie from Muskogee working as the Vice President of Marketing and Membership for a regional organization. Prior to moving to Muskogee, Oklahoma three years ago, she spent most of her life in the Chicago area where she sang lead in country, wedding, and rock bands; performed in school and community theater productions; and even represented Illinois in an international teen pageant. Recently she experienced the joy of film, being casted as an extra in Unsub: Subject of Unknown Origin, and she plans to continue pursuing film projects. Janet will perform in costume as "Mae West" during the Bare Bones Script-2-Screen Awards Show on Sunday. At the upcoming Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Concert in November, Janet will sing in honor of the famous jazz singer Lee Wiley, prior to Brooks & Dunn and Vince Gil taking the stage. CARL L. ADAMS, JR. loves to sing and write songs. He has been singing in talent shows since junior high school. Also at that time, the boys in his classes would pay him to write love poems. Thus, Carls singing and songwriting career began. Carl joined the United States Air Force after high school graduation. In his spare time, he organized a band which won the base talent show. One year, they also won the all-Air Force talent show and won the privilege of entertaining at bases around the country. Shortly after Carl returned home to Tulsa, he organized another band, Whatevers Fair, which was selected for Tulsas first Mayfest. Simon of Simon and Garfunkel was in the audience and he gave Carl his card to look him up if Carl ever traveled to Chicago. However, Carls band soon disbanded and never made the trip to Chicago. Family obligations of most of the band members were a higher priority than pursuing a musical career. Carl is now eligible for retirement and has decided to pick up his musical career. He has been singing at the Bare Bones Film Festivals for the last two years, thanks to the opportunities provided by Oscar and Shiron. This year, he and his wife, Vivian, signed up with OK Casting and they attended a songwriters seminar sponsored by OK Casting and conducted by Eric Redlhammer. He and Vivian offered two songs for critiques his signature song Soul Mate and a song written by Vivian, but sung by Carl, entitled Act Like a Lady. Both songs received a great reception from the audience and from Eric. In conjunction with Fresh Productions of Oklahoma City, Act Like a Lady was rearranged and Soul Mate was given more orchestration. Carl has put both songs on a CD (available at Script2Screen), and is checking with record companies. He will be performing these two songs at the Welcome Reception at 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 16. The movie he and Vivian wrote, filmed, directed, and produced, entitled Like a Lady, will be shown on Saturday, October 18 at 5:00 pm. Carl has written many more songs, including the soundtrack to one of his movies, and he hopes to spruce them up with the help of Fresh Productions. He now has the time to pursue his career and dreams of singing, songwriting, and now, filmmaking.
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