MUSIC: ? leads The Bill Meyer Group, a popular dance band for over 30 years, ? part of the acclaimed SBH Jazz Trio, at Berts Marketplace for over 8 years ? composes and arranges music for TV, film and advertising ? plays keyboards for shows at the Fisher, Masonic Temple, Michigan Opera Theater, and with the Detroit Symphony at Orchestra Hall ? former music director, conductor and pianist for Motown's Martha Reeves ? tours and records with jazz great Marcus Belgrave ? has worked with such acts as Smokey Robinson, Cab Calloway, Natalie Cole,Savion Glover, and many others. ? wrote and produced The Detroit Tribute to Paul Robeson and his Work for Peace ? music directed and conducted Mosaic Theater��s ��Now That I Can Dance�� ? music director for Steve Jone's Forgotten jazz opera

POLITICAL/CIVIC: ? lifelong activist in the peace and justice movement ? founding member of Jewish Voice for Peace (not Jewish) ? longtime activist with The Palestine Office (not Palestinian) ? lifelong member of the AFL, Detroit Federation of Musicians, Local 5 ? recently retired from Wayne State University where he worked since 1967 ? married 42 years to Twyla, two daughters, Tracy and Heather,two grandsons, Scott and Tristan ? moved to Hamtramck in 2000 ? former chair of the Hamtramck Human Relations Commission ? helped organize the Hamtramck African American Recognition Dinner ? initiated the move to re-establish the Hamtramck NAACP

Gear

Kurzweil PC88; Roland XP80

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