HALE CENTRE THEATRE PROUDLY PRESENTS:

PRODUCTION STAFF & CREW

Producers: David & Corrin Dietlein

Program Director: Ben Hale

Costume Designer: Jacki Marin

Lighting Designer: Tim Dietlein

Projection Designer: Danny Karapetian

Set Designer: McKenna Carpenter

Set Painting Assistants: Brittany Arwine & Liz de la Torre

Stage Manager: Danny Karapetian

Audio Engineer: Adam Stilson 

Camera Operator: Travis Dietlein

Assistant Stage Manager: Gunner Pettypool

Production Assistant: Rebekah Raun

SINGERS & BAND

Host-Vocals-Guitar:  Ben Hale

Vocals-Guitar: Isaac Ericksen

Lead Guitar-Vocals: Jake Shepard

Guitar-Vocals: Paige Overton

Drums-Vocals: Mari Ericksen

Pedal Steel Guitar: Tommy Wayne

Bass: Alex Martella

Keys: John Houston



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Ben Hale
Host-Vocals-Guitar

Ben has lead a multifaceted career in live music, recording and musical theater. He’s toured across the United States and Canada for the last decade performing both original music and tributes to Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and more. Select credits Include Phantom of the Opera-Las Vegas (Raoul U/S, Swing), Million Dollar Quarter-Las Vegas, Tuacahn, Hale Center Theater Orem and Sandy (Cash), Ring of Fire- Syracuse and Vero Beach (Cash/Man 2), 

His debut album was signed to Extreme Music-Sony/ATV and has been featured in over 50 tv shows including placements on Amazon, HBO, Netflix, NBC, TLC, Lifetime, Nickelodeon and Hulu. 

He is excited to share his new album at the Hale Concert Hall!




Isaac  Ericksen
Guitar-Vocals

Isaac Ericksen and his bass have been traveling the country since he was 15 years old. He has shared the stage with many popular Americana and Blues artists all over the nation including KBA winning artist Tas Cru, Tony Holiday, and his Father, Dick Earl. Isaac recently accompanied his father at the 2023 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN where their band, Electric Witness, took 3rd place against hundreds of competitors. Also appearing many times as “Brother Jay” in the musical ‘Million Dollar Quartet,’ Ericksen has worked hard and paid his dues to hone his craft as a musician and entertainer. 

Barber by day, Musician by night; Isaac resides in sunny St. George, UT.



Jake Shepard
Lead Guitar-Vocals

Jake is a Utah guitar slinger by way of New Hampshire. Jake makes you wonder where his hands stop and the guitar starts. He was previously living in Utah grinding the local scene and teaching, until The Rhyolite Sound asked him to move to Las Vegas to join their band. This year alone they played the world famous Troubadour in Los Angeles, headlined a country music festival in France, and opened up for Willie Nelson for his Luck Ranch Reunion. 


He has also recorded work with Lennon Roach and Paige Overton, album that’s due out this year!  He has had the privilege of  traveling to Mexico and Alaska playing guitar, the instrument that he LOVES!







Paige Overton
Guitar-Vocals

The Angry Song Bird,  Las Vegas Native and Nevada’s own Alt-Country Darlin’, Paige Overton. Forever writing sad songs and signing hauntingly sweet melodies. She has opened up for such national acts as Link Wray, Dick Dale, Jr. Brown, and Wanda Jackson to name a few.  She fronted The Clydesdale, a Las Vegas staple in the alt country genre, for many years. She was also once written up in Rolling Stone magazine. Paige Overton is half country, half soul, and a little bit of everything in between.  




Mari Erickson
Drums-Vocals

Mari Solana Ericksen was born in New York, but grew up in Utah within a strong musical tradition. From a young age, Mari's training was coupled with experience on stage, on the road, and in the studio, drawing her first professional paycheck at the age of 13. An accomplished drummer, vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter, she has appeared with numerous groups in varying genres from Las Vegas to New York, including Tas Cru and His Band of Tortured Souls, Dick Earl's Electric Witness, Halogyns, Pale Dream, and Anna Beck. Her theatrical pit orchestra credits include Starlight Express, Mary Poppins, and School of Rock, and audiences in Salt Lake City are privileged to experience Mari's live solo act. Mari studied under a Music Performance scholarship at Dixie State University (Utah Tech) and is also a talented freelance artist who loves painting, photography, embroidery, and cake decorating.

Tommy Wayne
Pedal Steel Guitar

Tommy Wayne spent the last 20 years arranging, recording and performing music for a cornucopia  of artists, stage shows and theatrical productions. He  played on Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams Tour" backing 2010 America's Got Talent winner Michale Grimm, George Strait's "Ace in the Hole Band", Randy Travis, Tim Mcgraw, Faith Hill, Tammy Wynette and Huey Lewis and the News tours.  He has also performed in stage shows across the country from Las Vegas to Atlantic City. 

He also has been in several theatre productions including "Lost Highway", "T Bone & Weasel" and "The Trip to Bountiful"



Alex Martella
Bass-Vocals

Alex was born and raised in Central Florida. He fell in love with music at a very early age and started playing piano, guitar and bass in elementary school. At age 14 he moved to Las Vegas where he started gigging around town as soon as he was old enough. He is a versatile player who can play blues, country, rock, and other genres as well. Currently he plays music in a handful of retro blues and country groups in Las Vegas.



John Houston
Keyboards

John Houston is a pianist/ keyboardist/ vocalist/ touring musician, formerly of the Gladys Knight S.U.V. Choir in Las Vegas, NV. He currently performs in the Eric Dodge Band, with whom he's had the opportunity to share the stage with, Clint Black, Carrie Underwood, LeAn Rimes, John Michael Montgomery, and many more.

John also plays keyboards and sings in several tribute shows, including Waylon/Willie/ Cash, Simon Garfunkel, Billy/Elton, Heart Tribute shows etc. For his "day job" he has been employed since 1998, as a Studio engineer, and session musician, and as such has had the opportunity to perform on hundreds of CDs. He majored in music at S.U.U. in Cedar City, UT with an emphasis on Music Theory, and Vocal performance.

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