BACA Board of Directors

Jim Keating, President, Yahoo Group Administrator
Jim Keating has served on the BACA board and was president from 2003-2007. He has served as the Yahoo group administrator for many years. He is a regular singer at BACA open mikes and piano bars in Boston, Provincetown, and New York. He is committed to providing opportunities for both professional and aspiring singers to find their voice though cabaret.

Casey, Vice President
Long-time victim of musical wanderlust, Casey Thomas creates a unique blend of swinging jazz, heartbreaking blues & gritty rock-n-roll. Casey has performed at venues around the country, including Chicago (Davenport's), New York (Don't Tell Mama), Boston (Encore Lounge) & Orlando (Catch A Rising Star). Currently, he performs every 3rd Thursday at Nick's of Worcester as a member of its monthly Crooners event. For more details on upcoming events, see: facebook.com/CaseyTroubadour.

Carole Bundy, Treasurer
Carole became a member of BACA in 2010 and served as stage manager for their spring cabaret festivals for three years. In the fall of 2013 she began singing at open mics and has been enjoying the community of fellow lovers of the Great American Songbook. She did her first BACA showcase in June 2015. She also sings with the Concord Women's chorus, and plays the ukulele. Having worked in administration at Harvard for much of her career (now retired), she brings her organizational skills to the position of Treasurer.

Dave Hardy, Member Services/Online Communications
Dave was raised in small towns in New York, and his love affair with both music and radio began at age eight, when he was given his first radio. He remembers his excitement when, at age nine, he found out that you could own some of the records they played on the radio. At age 16, his birthday gift was a night at the local radio station. Around the same time, computers sparked his interest when he obtained time on the local university's mainframe computer. During the CB craze of the '70's, Dave received his first transmitter and FCC license, and began his first "on air" experiences. He got his ham radio license in 1987 and is still active with that today. At Syracuse University, Dave was selected for radio training. When he moved to the Boston area and began working as a programmer/analyst at MIT, he aired his first radio show. He played show tunes, and comedy and novelty songs. Later, he introduced Cabaret Corner as a segment of the Broadway show. Outside BACA, Dave is owner of Positively Charged Internet radio, www.live365.com/stations/djsleeepy. "I hope to use my background in radio, computers, and music to help BACA grow in whatever way I can."

Linda Marks, Communications Director and Open Mike Director
Linda Marks, a singer/songwriter since childhood, loves the cabaret genre for the intimacy of the relationship between singer and audience. A Yale University grad with honors and distinction in music, Linda co-founded Yale's third women's acapella singing group, Something Extra, as a 17 year old freshman and ran and performed in a Cabaret venue, Cafe Calhoun. She released an album of original songs, Dreams and Themes in 1983, and is delighted to release a new CD, Heart to Heart at Scullers Jazz Club on September 16, 2015. Linda enjoys serving on the board of directors of the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists and contributing to growing a vital sense of community. She has sung at Amazing Things Arts Center, Ryles, Arts at the Armory, Scullers, the Acton Jazz Cafe, the Spring into Song Cabaret Fundraiser, and a Singer Showcase sponsored by the Y Center for the Creative Arts at the West Suburban YMCA, both for the Newton Festival of the Arts.

Wendy Wolfberg, Education, Events, and Communications
Over the years, Wendy has sung in choral groups including pastoral care, musical theatre, and with John Hoffman and the DEC Bigband. People just seem to hand her the microphone. She practices regularly by performing at various open mikes and outreach opportunities. Wendy is known for the sultry, strong, and upbeat quality of her voice and an intimate and warm performing style.

Trained classically, over time she sought to broaden and connect more deeply with sound and reenergize the journey. In addition to voice lessons in high school and college, Wendy took Authentic Movement classes with Shakti Smith at Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts in Concord, MA and later immersed herself in discovery working with Kate Ransohoff at Turtle Studios in Watertown. These did a lot to help her connect more deeply with the music.

A member of BACA since January of 2014, Wendy co-produced BACA's October 2014 fundraiser with Linda Marks and since the Fall of 2015 has been instrumental in getting the new Educational Workshops offerings up and running. She helped to form the committee, envision programming, and design the online reservation and payment system (with a lot of help from Andy on the technical side). She is currently supporting marketing and publicity efforts and always invites your ideas and suggestions.