Rick Jobe and Tuxedo Junction -- About the Band

Any of the musicians listed here may appear with Rick Jobe and Tuxedo Junction , depending on the engagement.
	Rick Jobe, guitar, vocals, saxophone, clarinet, has been entertaining Huntsville audiences for many years. Besides Tuxedo Junction, Rick can be seen in the acoustic and western swing group Swing Toujours, the retro-rock band Rix, and in the contemporary Christian band Grateful Live. More on Rick below.
	Joe Manning (aka BJ Bass), upright and electric bass. Joe studied classical string bass and played in rock bands in the sixties. Besides Tuxedo Junction, Joe appears with Swing Toujours, Grateful Live, Rix, the Valley Community Orchestra, and the One Human Family gospel choir. Joe's day job is as a physicist and model developer for an Army contractor.
	Bill VonCamp, drums, is a retired Army musician who has played and conducted around the world. Bill now operates a custom drum repair shop in Huntsville, Alabama.
	Jim Wood, violin, viola, and guitar. A four-time Tennessee fiddle champion, Jim has been in demand for years as a session player in Nashville. He is a full time performer, producer, and teacher. Jim also appears with Swing Toujours, the Jingo String Band, and Highland Consort.
	Inge Wood, guitar and violin, knows more neat chords and voicings than you can shake a pick at. Inge also appears with husband Jim at country dance events and fiddle contests. Inge is a chemist and a graduate student at Middle Tennessee State.
	Eric Shaw (Sharkey), keyboards, has been active in the music scene in Huntsville and Nashville for many years, both as a keyboardist and as a vocalist. He has appeared with Vox Angelica, an acapella vocal group in Huntsville. Eric also plays and sings with contemporary Christian band Grateful Live, and with Rix. Eric is a NASA economic specialist.
	Felix Farralles, trumpet, is a retired Army musician.
	Kathy Shaw (Mrs. Sharkey), vocals, has also been an active player in the Huntsville and Nashville music scenes for many years. Kathy is the music director at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Huntsville.
	Dennis Cornelison, drums. Dennis's steady beat has been a fixture in Huntsville nightspots for years. In addition, Dennis performs at the Cappuccino and Christ service at Trinity United Methodist Church, and with Grateful Live and Rix.
	Fran Cornelison, vocals. Fran's voice is also well-known in the Huntsville area. With Tuxedo Junction, she sings songs by vocalists ranging from Bonnie Rait to Aretha Franklin. Fran is a teacher in the Huntsville city schools. She also performs at the Cappuccino and Christ service at Trinity United Methodist Church, and with Grateful Live and Rix.

Rick Jobe has performed as a vocalist and has played guitar, saxophone, and clarinet in many different styles of music over a period of four decades. He studied jazz at Berklee College of Music and classical guitar at the University of Alabama. He has also had private lessons from Columbia recording artist Bobby Hutcherson and from classical guitar students of Andres Segovia.

Rick has shared the stage with John Lee Hooker and has toured the country with Columbia recording star Vic Dana (Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Shangri-La). He was the resident guitarist at Joe Namath's Supper Club.

In Huntsville, Rick has been active for many years as a performer, teacher, producer, and retailer. Rick was part owner and operator of the Fret Shop for ten years. His interest in computers and music led him to establish Random Access Music, or RAM, in 1993. RAM provided the music and audio for the CD-ROM Space Shuttle Physics, produced in cooperation with NASA. Other multimedia clients included Motorola, Sigmatech, and the US Army. Rick was also active in on-sight recording and CD mastering, the most notable of which was a live CD of the Dynamic Praise Gospel Choir featuring the voices of Grammy winners Mark and Joel Kibble of Take 6. More recently, Rick recorded, edited, and performed saxophone and clarinet music for the Disney Interactive video game Monsters Incorporated.