Lead Singer: Bruce Vanderweyer

The Walker Dance Band is a popular New York City cover band. There lead singer Bruce Vanderweyer plays a big part in making them as popular as they are. In large part he is the driving force behind the band that has taken them from a bunch of guys playing together on the weekend to a serious professional band that as able to get regular work at events all over the city.

Bruce Vanderweyer got his start in music during high school when he and some friends started a garage band. They never really got the chance the play for an audience so they mostly just practiced together after school. Since a music career seemed to be an unlikely option Bruce headed off to college where he studied to be an accountant. It was while he was at college however that Bruce started to play music seriously. He answered an ad for a band that was looking or a lead singer and for the next three years he played with them part time at various shows around town.

After graduating from college Vanderweyer headed for New York in order to pursue his career as an accountant. He got hired by one of the big accounting firms and for the next few years worked at getting his certification. At the same time he started looking for a place to get back into singing. It was during this time that he discovered that the Walker Dance Band needed a new singer so he decided to try out. For the first few years the band was hardly a full time gig as they only managed to get a few shows here and there.

After a few years as an accountant Vanderweyer was asked to leave the accounting firm he was working at because he had not brought in enough new business. Not really interested in spending his career chasing after new clients he instead decided that it was time to take the Walker Dance Band to the next level and turn it into a full time job. It turned out that the experience that he got chasing accounting clients also helped in getting the band jobs and soon they were working enough that they were able to make a full time living at it.

Today the Walker Dance Band is a well known New York cover band that plays at parties and other events all over the city. They have been successful in large part because they are a professional cover band who actually take their work seriously. This is not something that you can say about a lot of bands. This makes them particularly popular with event planners who have all kinds of stuff to worry about and really don't want to add chasing after the band to their list of headaches.