Joey Dundore Cares: Press/Fan Recipes

Eldersburg Teacher Featured on "America's Got Talent"
Alicia McCarty August 4, 2008

Saxophonist Joey Dundore, who is a music teacher at Oklahoma Road Middle School, was recently on NBC’s talent search “America’s Got Talent”.

Dundore, who has been teaching in Carroll County since 2005, was partially encouraged to enter the contest by a student. “Well at the time I was teaching, giving a flute lesson, and I told [the student] about [sending in the DVD and going to Vegas] and she said, ‘Ya gotta go Mr. D, ya gotta!’, so that helped too,” Dundore said.

His main motivation for entering the contest was to further his musical career. He stated that he had been interested in entering some type of contest for awhile, “I just hadn’t got around to it,” he explained.

The entire process was rather quick. Within one week of sending in his audition tape back in May, Dundore received a call telling him he was being sent off to Las Vegas for an all expense paid trip. “I was pretty nervous,” Dundore admitted.

He said that the experience was “pretty cool” mentioning that he had never before been to Vegas, and walking around the city was fun. At the actual audition, for copyright reasons, Dundore had to play a different song than he was planning on playing, and overall only got about a second on national TV. His performance aired on July 29.

Although his “America’s Got Talent” run was short lived, the experience was encouraging. “I’ve been practicing more and started learning guitar this summer,” Dundore said. He is still seeking dancers interested in collaborating with him for future endeavors.

Dundore’s love for music is nothing new, as he explains on his website. “I knew I wanted to pursue music when I was in the third grade, about five years into playing the saxophone.” His resume is rather lengthy, having worked with several central Pennsylvania professional jazz bands, including the Dave Wilson Trio, Central Pennsylvania’s Friends of Jazz Youth Band, the Erin Walker Trio, and the Young Sounds Big Band and also touring with the American Music Abroad European Tour group as first chair Alto saxophone.

His professional goals “are to become an outstanding writer/ performer of jazz, funk, R&B, pop and contemporary styles.” He added, “I want to create music where melody is so important that words do not matter.”

(Visit JoeyDCares.org for Joey's Charity Organization)

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Pretzel Dessert
1 cup crushed preztel

1/2 c sugar

1/2 c melted butter

13X9 pan bake 375

7 minutes then cool

break up into chunks

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drain 1 can 20 oz crush pineapple

1 - 8 oz phila. cream chesse beat

beat 1- 20oz contaner cool whip with the above

put pretzel mixture into above chill and enjoy