Bio


Chuck Mayo is a professional keyboard player in Dallas Texas, enjoying a professional career spanning over three decades and a half-dozen musical styles.

Chuck currently serves as on-call keyboardist for a number of Dallas blues artists, musical director for The Flashback Showband and is preparing to embark upon an exciting new project as director/arranger for Allan Conner. Chuck is available for engagements in the North Texas area, as well as short-term or extended travel within the United States.

During his years as a full-time sideman, Chuck toured the U.S. and Canada throughout the 70's and 80's with various recording artists, show and dance bands, including Rod Young (Hawaiian #1 recording artist, "Puka Shells"), Lloyd David Foster (Academy of Country Music New Male Vocalist of the Year nominee, "Blue Rendezvous," "I Can Feel the Fire") and many others, recording in Dallas, Houston and Los Angeles studios before settling down in Dallas with the successful show group "The Connor Brothers Band." Performing frequently at local venues such as Billy Bob's of Texas, Belle Star, The Top Rail, The Crystal Chandelier, The Keynote Club, Barney Oldfields, The Summit Hotel, and Granny's Dinner Theater, Chuck's past and current projects have appeared on the bill with such greats as Roy Orbison, Ray Price, The Smothers Brothers, Phyllis Diller, Gary Morris, Johnny Gimble, Reba McEntyre, Freddy Fender, Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, .38 Special, Jimmy Vaughan, Bob Schneider, Train, Johnny Winter, Collective Soul and Walter Trout.

Since returning to professional music in 2004, Chuck has focused primarily on the blues and blues rock genres, backing notable regional and national entertainers including Joe Jonas, Stacy Mitchhart, Holland K. Smith, Johnny Red and The Roosters, Chris Watson, The Silvertones, Buzz Andrews, and Voodoo Blue at area nightclubs and larger venues including Grapefest, the Bedford Blues Fest, The State Fair of Texas, the Denton Arts and Jazz Festival, The House of Blues Music Hall, The South Texas State Fair, Taste of Addison, Denton Blues Fest, The Cottonwood Arts Festival, Grapevine Main Street Days, Fort Worth Main Street Arts Fest and Las Vegas casinos.

 

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