Chic Compass Connection2021-01-22T12:03:52-08:00

Chic Compass Connection

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Meet the Hosts

Jamie Hosmer

Jamie Hosmer

Jamie Hosmer is a vocalist, keyboardist with over 35 years of professional experience. He began his career playing local nightclubs and performance venues on weekends, in his hometown of Springfield Massachusetts, then hit the road shortly after graduating from high school.

For the next ten years or so, Jamie would perform all over the United States in various “Top 40” and “Show Band” formats. He also had the opportunity to travel to Europe to perform in the “Dirty Dancing Concert Tour” in 1988.

Since the year 2000, Jamie has made Las Vegas his home. In 2001, he landed the role of keyboardist, vocalist and programmer for the multimillion dollar production “Storm” at Mandalay Bay. That was followed by a 4-year stint with headliner Clint Holmes at Harrah’s.

Currently, Jamie is working with Michael Cavanaugh, who starred on Broadway’s “Movin Out” in the lead role. Jamie plays keys, guitar, and sings with Michael.

He also plays keys and sings with “ASIA Featuring John Payne” and “The 80’s Rock Tour” (a live concert featuring different classic rock singers, all on one stage). Lou Gramm (Foreigner), Mickey Thomas (Starship), Bobby Kimball (Toto), Steve Augeri (Journey), Tony Lewis (The Outfield) are just a few of the great singers who perform with “The 80’s Rock Tour.”

Jamie is also a member of “Santa Fe And The Fat City Horns,” a 15- piece horn band that has been performing in Las Vegas every Monday night for the last 18 years. Members of Santa Fe can be seen performing with artists like Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Donny and Marie, and others. Guest artists with Santa Fe throughout the years include Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, Wayne Brady, Bill Champlin, among many others. Jamie contributes lead vocals, keyboards, and also songwriting and producing for the band.

In addition to performing live, Jamie has extensive experience writing and producing custom production music for long form infomercials, spanning every style imaginable. Jamie has composed, recorded and mixed hundreds of pieces of music for infomercials over the last 15 years.

Jamie Hosmer

Amy Crosley

Amy Crosley is a drummer and percussionist based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. She is an alumnus of the Las Vegas Academy for Performing Arts High School. She is currently finishing her Jazz Performance Degree at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In the past, she won the Outstanding Soloist award at the Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival and was a part of many groups at UNLV that won Downbeat Awards. She was a former radio DJ at KUNV 91.5 Jazz and More, where she hosted ‘Modern Jazz Vibrations,’ a show dedicated to new and upcoming jazz music and local jazz musicians.

Currently, Amy serves as the Social Media Manager for Kenny Rampton’s organization Jazz Outreach Initiative dedicated to jazz education. Kenny Rampton plays trumpet in Wynton Marsalis’s Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra. She also teaches percussion at Clark High School and various schools in the Las Vegas Valley. Amy is the drummer for the show,  Zombie Burlesque, at Planet Hollywood. She plays percussion in the Henderson Symphony Orchestra and has various groups of her own. Two of her groups include the jazz quartet, Rudiments, and the neo-soul jazz group, Kora.

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