The Mutual Fun Players

Keyboard/Guitar/Vocals – Rob Hoffman

Female Vocals 1

Dawn Reeves is one of our Lead Female Vocalists.

From dinner standards to Disco to Top 40, Dawn will get the crowd moving with her wireless microphone, which allows her the freedom to interact with the audience. She will also help you organize your function with regards to the entertainment we provide.

Dawn not only entertains, she educates – that’s because Dawn is a schoolteacher for the 3^rd and 4^th grades. At least, that’s what she did before she became a Mother of two! Now she educates at home!

Is that Dawn? Or Shania? Hmmm…

(Answer key – Dawn is on the right)

Female Vocals 2

Tami is our other Lead Female Vocalist!

Professionally singing in the Baltimore area for years, Tami has been involved in a variety of musical projects, including variety dance bands, wedding bands, blues bands, and folk duos. Her passion extends to all musical genres, and she thoroughly enjoys entertaining audiences through music.

Tami also is not shy about taking her wireless microphone out on the floor to get the crowd involved. Watch out – She may be coming to you!

Tami works as a marine biologist. She once pulled a golf ball out of humpback whale’s blowhole and saved it’s life just like George in Seinfeld!

Tami dressed up for the big ball – All she needs now is her Prince….

Bass

Jim Karl provides the Bass Guitar and the Male lead vocals.

With the longest hair in the group and his rock and roll attitude, Jim Karl fills the front man position in the band. If you hear a primal scream coming from the stage, you can bet it’s coming from Jim’s mouth. From Beatles to Bon Jovi to Tony Bennett, Jim can turn from rocker to crooner in a flash; serenading out a country love song making you wonder if maybe he’s got a split personality? He is about as close to, and as far from, “The Wedding Singer” as you can get!

He also plays guitar, but he rarely gets a chance to play it onstage! That’s ok though, because with influences like Paul McCartney, Geddy Lee, and Chris Squire - in this band the BASS is the lead instrument!

Jim runs our PA system, is our behind the scenes technician, our Webmaster (which means he is responsible for all the stories here), and he is the only guy who knows how to pack the van correctly.

In his day job (which is just a means to retirement), Jim is a Systems Engineer for Orbital TMS.

Oh yeah – and he hates mayonnaise.

Jim shown here dressed for a formal function

P.S. That’s his real hair.

Will pull hair back if asked but refuse to cut!

And yes, there was one Mother who asked….

Keyboards

Rob Hoffman can never find his keys. That’s because he has 88 of them to keep track of! Rob’s our keyboard player but more than that, he also provides us a second guitar when we really need to get rocking! Rob also provides male lead vocals. Rob’s specialty is the 70’s and 80’s dance era. Rob can also provide cocktail music if you’re planning on having a ‘pre-party’ party, or even ceremony music during the wedding itself.

Rob may be the “whitest man in show business”, but vocally he sounds just like James Brown! Or is that Barry White? In any case, we call him the Funk Master, as he covers all the 70’s/80’s dance songs.

Because of his accounting background as a CPA and his ability to add numbers up correctly, Rob gets to run the band, handling all the contracts and making sure Jim’s “No mayonnaise” contract clause is upheld.

You supply the piano!

But he has plenty of keyboards.

Rob dressed up for Halloween

Rob also drives the band truck. I use the word “drive” liberally because it’s hard to call what he does “driving”. It’s more like meandering aimlessly across the roadway – except it happens at about 65 MPH. Apparently, the driving tests he took when he was growing up were conducted from a completely parked position, because there’s really no way he could have passed it otherwise.

Rob eating a cherry slushy while driving the band van.

Moments later he spilled it all over his nice white shirt…..

Rob eating a chocolate sundae while driving the band van.

Moments later he spilled chocolate sauce all over the seat….

Guitar

Although no relation to Jimmy, Ted Henricks can play guitar just like him! Ted’s a transplant from New Jersey and lived right next to the Sopranos (BadaBing!). But seriously, if the audience wants to dance, Ted just wants to play his guitar. The everyday stress of daily life has created a need for Ted to Rock and Roll! Ted also provides additional Male Lead vocals.

In his real life, Ted does sales for the healthcare industry. He knows more about Pig heart valves anyone we know. To bad they don’t have a category on Jeopardy for that. He’d win a lot of money….

Ted says to all our clients –

“You know what band you want to hire – DON’T YOU??”.

Why does this look like he’s ready to go to the Prom?

Sax

Dave Mielke blows more hot air than anyone in the group. That because he’s our Sax player! If it’s horns you want to hear, like from the Motown era, or even Big Band, Dave’s Alto and Tenor Sax , along with his high tech wind controller (which can plays any type of wind instrument – Trumpet, Trombone, Flute, etc..) will be sure to get you dancing!

Dave also runs our lightshow and provides background vocals. He’s also the guy that yells “Salt Salt SALT!” in Margaritaville.

Dave works as a Lead System Accountant at NASA.

Dave showing off his muscles here – too bad he never uses them when we load…

By the way – dig those sexy socks – What a ladies man!

Drums

Bob Finn is the man that holds down the beat. Bob is a “Federal Government Employee”. I have to say that because two guys in dark suits mirrored sunglasses and earpieces showed up at my house and told me to say that.

What it really means to be a federal Government Employee is that he gets like a hundred days off a year...

Bob can’t tell you exactly what he does for a living or he’d have to kill you. We don’t even know what he does!

As a “special government employee”, Bob’s job has taken him all over the world. His passport has more stamps then the post office – but these aren’t the kind of places you want to go for vacation. To balance out his professional life, Bob takes his “hits” out on the drums!