Jeff Timmons

Jeff Timmons

Chippendale’s Guest Star

                                                    Jeff Timmons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h-_Y30Esg8
Photos/Videos by Nikki Artale
Jeff Timmons, the founding member of 98 Degrees walked the red carpet opening night at the Chippendales show, on May 12, 2011 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It was exciting to meet and talk to Jeff as he displayed his charm and flexed his muscles for the media. Jeff brought along his beautiful wife Amanda and her son Ashten, who is a Chippendale in the making. http://www.chippendales.com/

Jeff is a newly wed, having married Amanda last November, and added Ashten as his stepson to the family. You could see the love and admiration in the father son relationship as Ashten clung to Jeff and gave him hugs and kisses.

Jeff & Amanda Timmons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACbSLQ1GA2c

The Chippendales are the best all male strip show in Las Vegas with a cast of 10 gorgeous, steamy, hot, sexy men who tease the women in the audience with their high energy movements and dancing. The women start screaming from the moment the men appear on the stage until the end of the show and I think it is the uniforms that they wear, dressed as cowboys, firemen, military officers and ohhhhhhhhhhhh those long black coats that are so sexy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peDYnJlkF1Q
Or just no clothes at all which they do a lot in ending each number as you can see here by one of the sexiest Chippendales.

                                                    Jace Crispin

Jeff Timmons stole the hearts of the young ladies in the audience, especially one lucky one that Jeff brought on stage and sang “I Do Cherish You” and gave her a red rose. Jeff sang a few of 98 Degrees biggest hits and at one point the ladies ran to the stage as he sang and for a moment it looked like it was going to be a Jeff Timmons concert. They were encouraged to sit down after the song so the Chippendale show could go on. http://www.jefftimmons.com/

Each and every Chippendale is great on the stage and Chaun Thomas is outstanding as he creates his original Michael Jackson “Gansta” dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5QmulcoeMk
After the show it was off to the Flirt Lounge to meet Jeff Timmons and the Chippendales who came in to mingle, sign autographs and take lots of pictures with everyone. They were so wonderful to be with and they made everyone feel so special. These are my kind of guys.

                                                      Nikki Artale & Jeff Timmons

                                        Chaun Thomas & Melissa Walton

                                        Juan DeAngelo & Connie Brown

Jeff has a four week engagement with the Chippendales so make sure you go to see him at the Rio All Suites Hotel Casino between May 12-June5. I leave you with this video of the fabulous Chippendales. I will see you at the next show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om6PTgdHEtU

Tony Pace Achieving His Dreams

Tony Pace

Achieving His Dreams

Photos & Videos by Nikki Artale
After having toured the country and head lined in Atlantic City for awhile, Tony Pace is finally back in Las Vegas. Tony will be performing at The Clarion Hotel Casino on June 6 & 7, July 25 & 26, August 22 & 23 with his eight piece band. His shows were sorely missed and now Tony is back. He put on a fabulous 60 minute show last week end. It went by so fast and everyone did not want it to end. http://www.tonypace.com/

A favorite of the crowd was the duet between Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson singing “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before”. It was hilarious to watch him go back and forth with the hat, wig and hairpiece as he sang the duet. Tony is a non stop ball of energy as he shares over 30 impressions of the all time greats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9-dS3el7eY

Tony’s other impressions were of Louis Armstrong singing “What a Wonderful World” with the famous white handkerchief, Johnny Mathis singing “Misty” and Rod Stewart jumping wildly across the stage. Tony had his moments when he sang Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole’s “Unforgettable” playing to the ladies and men in the audience. He found two bald headed men and as he gently caressed their heads, he brought laughter to the entire audience.,

Tony knows how to work a crowd and he’s mastered his technique to include the audience in his show, which at times are hysterically funny. Three men from the audience were brought up on stage to play instruments in one of the skits and Tony’s comedic timing was so perfect, it was hysterical to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sicKLa0bqHo

My favorite part of the show is when Tony Pace sings “Music of the Night” from Phantom of the Opera, in his beautiful three octave tenor voice that touches every nerve in your body. I saw Phantom three times and I absolutely love the show so it is special to me when I hear Tony Pace sing his rendition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiaYL-FtfDI

What would a show be without Elvis entertaining the crowd and then introducing his son-in-law, Michael Jackson? It was a great performance and left everyone wanting more. These performances were just another display of Tony’s great talent.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5_CT_TID0I
We were in for a treat when Tony Pace introduced, as part of his show, Anthony Rais the magnificent puppeteer who has created many fabulous and spectacular animated marionettes, Malachi, Semone, Rigga Mortease and Totolino. Totolino is a boy clown whose movements are brought to life by the genius talent of Anthony Rais. I was fascinated and mesmerized as I watched Totolino move effortlessly as Anthony tugged on his strings. www.AnthonyRais.com

                                       Tony Pace, Anthony Rais

                                                        Totolino

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSEhJ7St-Fg

The Tony Pace show is a feel good show to see over and over again as you watch his great talent and mastery of the stars. Tony is a joy to watch because you can see and feel how much he loves what he does. He is inspirational and he is living his dream.

                                                       Tony Pace



Mosaic Five Shinning Stars

Mosaic

Five Shining Stars

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssRW13lGr2o Video

Heath Burgett, John Gibson, Sean Gerrity, Troy Dolendo and Josh Huslig are the next great vocal group to come our way in Las Vegas. They are called “Mosaic” and they have amazed audiences across the country with their incredible a capella singing. The music is great and then you look around to find the band. There isn’t a band playing, it is their human voices producing every sound. www.notaboyband.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vKcqHjRCM4
Josh Huslig, baritone, bass singer founded Mosaic in 2004 and brought on the other members who were performing in other shows. They began playing on cruise ships and performing at corporate conventions. They caught the eye of George Wallace and he hired them for his opening act at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. Mosaic performed in many other hotel casinos including the Mirage and Mandalay Bay, and opened for Prince.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfSiM5owzyE


http://www.youtube.com/vocalmosaic

                                                   Josh Huslig-baritone, bass

                                                      Heath Baurgett-tenor

                                                   TroyDolendo-baritone, bass,vocal percussion

                                        Sean Gerrity-tenor, vocal percussion

                                                     John Gibson-Baritone, bass

Their pop rock sound includes the guitar, drums and bass as they play the instruments with their voices. It is truly amazing the sound that they produce in their performances.

http://www.mosaicband.com/

Mosaic has won many awards and one award they are proud of is being crowned the winner of MTV’s Top Pop Group in October 2008. On July 22, 2009 they appeared on “America’s Got Talent” and were one of the top 40 contestants, but only made it to the quarterfinals. They should have won that competition, according to some of the people I talked to. Their loss is our gain because now they will be the new show at the Silverton Hotel Casino in Las Vegas in the Veil Theater.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHRGuse60o

Mosaic hosted a media night with a huge party at the Silverton Hotel on April 23, 2011 and thrilled the attendees with the fabulous show. The handsome young men made quite an impression on everyone with their warmth, charm and talent. Everyone gathered around them after the show to talk and take pictures and get to know them personally.

This is a must see show you can bring your family to enjoy and by the looks of it, they will be here for a long engagement.

Gladys Knight

Gladys Knight

Empress of Soul

On April 26, 2011 the Tropicana Hotel Casino was the place to be to see the fabulous Gladys Knight, a mic and a light, perform to a loving and welcoming audience.

The room was filled with love and Gladys expressed her appreciation to all the fans that could have been anyplace else and chose to come and be with her. http://www.gladysknight.com/

An 11 piece band, backup singers and dancers made this a special experience to an enthusiastic audience. Gladys Knight had her brother Merald “Bubba” Knight as her special guest and he rocked the house. Bubba is a R&B soul singer and is best known for the groups hit singles “Midnight Train to Georgia” and “I heard it Through the Grapevine”.

Merald "Bubba" Knight

We had a chance to meet Bubba and some of the band members at a reception before the show in the lounge and Bubba was a delight to talk to. Bubba is proud of his little sister and he said he taught her well.

                                        Neil Taffe, Ken Young, Bubba Knight, Arno Lucas

A nostalgia of the long ago time when Gladys Knight and the Pips were starting out was shown on a screen during the show and many memories became real again. The group had a string of hit singles on Motown records and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975. Gladys was the lead singer with the Pips, which included her brother Bubba and their cousins Edward Patten and William Guest as backup singers. They were from Atlanta, Georgia and were active from 1967 to 1975. Gladys started singing at the age of seven in 1952 and she won the Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour.

As the show came to an end, Gladys shook the out stretched hands of her loyal fans and there were many happy and sad faces as the show came to an end. Gladys said this would not be a concert, it would be an experience. It was an experience to watch this seven time Grammy award winner singing the wonderful songs of yesteryear.

Gladys Knight performs on Tuesday –Thursday at 8:00 pm, Friday-Saturday at 9:00 pm at the Tropicana Hotel Casino, 3801 S. Las Vegas Blvd. Call 800 829-9034.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v02U79G8hjQ Video

Linda Griner

Linda Griner

International Recording Star

                                                     Linda Griner

You may remember Linda Griner from her first album “The Many Faces of Lyn Roman” when she was signed by Columbia Records. Linda then went on to record for Dot Label and had 10 consecutive singles, albums and a movie soundtrack for the film “The Brotherhood” with Kirk Douglas. Linda traveled worldwide with many bands and appeared on many TV shows, working with Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Dean Martin. She was a close friend of Redd Foxx and did a lot of charity work with him.

                                                          Linda Griner

Smokey Robinson discovered Linda when she was singing at the Howard Theater in Washington DC. At the time Smokey Robinson was Berry Gordy’s right hand man and he was anxious to introduce him to Linda Griner. Berry was very impressed with her and Linda made her recording debut on Motown in 1963. She recorded as both Lyn Roman and Linda Griner at various times. Smokey Robinson wrote and produced “Goodbye Cruel Love” for Linda and it is now a classic.

Linda’s music is soulful and touches the heart, along with the great sound, beautiful lyrics and her beautiful stunning looks. I love listening to her music. She has a strong following in England and a lot of her music has been reissued by Kent Records and West Side. Her music is in the top five spot in London. Motor city Records is a British Record Label that records new material with former Motown Artists and in 1991 they released Linda’s Bitter End Album. http://www.lindagrinermusic.com/

Lots of fans have been asking for Linda Griner to re-release her single “We Belong Together” which features the great Tom Scott, composer and musical director. Linda felt that the lyrics of “We Belong Together” needs to be heard around the world so it will remind people how important we all are to each other and to love one another and make a difference in each others lives. This long awaited single is number one in Las Vegas.

                                                         Tom Scott
Motown was the place to meet all the up and coming stars and Linda has remained friends with most of them and when they appear in Las Vegas, I go along with her to their shows and visit backstage.

                              Nikki Artale, Ruth Pointer, Linda Griner, Anita Pointer
Linda has her own music division on I tunes where you can purchase her music by going to

http://www.reverbnation.com/lindagriner

                                   Linda Griner singing National Anthem at Orleans Stadium

Linda Griner along with lots of other stars and celebrities lives here in Las Vegas and I am happy to call Linda my best friend. She is beautiful, loving and caring and can always be counted on, no matter what. That is what I call a true friend. I can’t wait to see her perform again so the world can see how beautiful and wonderful she is. Linda will make a difference in peoples lives with her wonderful music.

Jay White Is A Star

Jay White Is a Star

On April 9, 2011 the world premier of Beautiful Noise premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival in Florida. The Musical/Drama, starring our very own Jay White had a starring role in the movie. The movie is a tale of a young singer Danielle White as Dez who is searching for Noah, played by Jay White, so she can re-record his unreleased lost album. She hopes this will make her a big star. Noah at this time in his life is a reclusive old man living in the Myakka woods. As they spend time together, an unlikely romance occurs and a beautiful story unfolds. http://www.beautifulnoisethemovie.com/

There is music, lyrics and ballads and who better to sing them but Jay White who is known as the best Neil Diamond tribute artist in the world. He has an uncanny likeness to Neil Diamond and you can close your eyes and think you are hearing Neil Diamond. Jay has thrilled audiences for over 25 years in Las Vegas. http://www.jaysdiamond.com/

Kimber Cleveland is co-staring as Candy and will be making her feature film debut along with four featured singers all singing original songs. Jay White is singing a remake of the Joni Michell hit “Free Man in Paris”. Jay made his movie debut in the film Frost/Nixon.

                                                                  Kimber Cleveland

Steve Tatone is the Producer, Director and Screenwriter with Midnight Pass Productions in Sarasota Florida. Wendy Williams is Executive Producer. Steve reported sold out screening every night and the movie brought tears and smiles to everyone and the night ended with standing ovations.

Steve plans to immediately write a prequel “Serenade” and a sequel “Heart light” to the movie which will be filmed in the Bahamas later this year.

                                           Steve Tatone
Steve Tatone predicts it to be a sleeper hit with a soundtrack that moves people emotionally. I can see how that can happen because that is what happened nightly when Jay White did his Neil Diamond tribute show at the Riviera in Las Vegas. We all loved Jay’s show and we miss him and can’t wait to see him again. A special memory of Jay is when he gave me a rose during his show as he sang “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Anymore” which is my favorite song.

                                             Jay White and Nikki Artale

http://youtu.be/MNcBhHYfP3k Video 1


http://youtu.be/pZIb2s09COA Video 2


Jay White in addition to doing the movie has been performing all over the country with his band. They did 20 shows in 27 days performing his tribute act to sold out 1000 venue seats. Jay recently performed his new stage production “Coming to America” to sold out crowds in Palm Springs CA. In addition to the music of Neil Diamond, there are actors, a choir and video graphics. A Beautiful Noise Concert tour is planned this summer with 14 songs sung by the 4 singing leads in the film.

Hopefully this movie will be hitting the big screens in Las Vegas and we can all go to see our Jay White in his starring role. See you at the movies.