Jack Wayne McCoy

Bass-Baritone Jack Wayne McCoy is a Classically trained singer.

He has performed on stages since he was 16 years old. In High school he was in a special performance group called the Chordaliers and was selected to be in the All-NW Choir and won the John Phillip Sousa award. He was a music and voice major at Clark College and later studied with Dorothy Fisher Jones and attended the Portland School of Opera and Related Arts. He toured Washington and Oregon with the Portland Opera tour company, participated in the Portland Opera Educational programs in conjunction with the Junior League in schools throughout the greater Portland Oregon area.

He soloed with the Oregon and Seattle POPS symphony under the baton of Norman Leyden. He developed programs that toured the greater SW Washington and NW Oregon areas and has performed on stage in many Operas and Musical theater productions.

He first started his own singing telegram service called Sing-A-graM NW in 1980 while attending the school of Opera and working as a Singing Waiter. As a Singing Waiter he worked in French, Irish, German and Italian restaurants.
For the past 20 years Jack has worked as a Singing Gondolier in Las Vegas. During the gondola ride he improvises song parodies about how the couples first met.