Born on September 10th 1942 in Lewiston, Maine.  Grew up in a musical family.  His dad Bob a piano player, and mom ,a Big Band  vocalist, inspired him to make the 40s style of music his own.   this is when he picked up on all the songs coming out of the 40s.   After World War 2 an uncle gave him a Army bugle and thus began his magical launch into music.. 

By the age of  6 he was taking trumpet lessons effortlessly and sitting in with his fathers band playing a few tunes..   By high school, he picked up an mastered other brass instuments such as the Sax, Trombone, Fute, as well as the Piano and developed his first love for a genre of music ---"Jazz" 

In his late 20s he brought together other professional   musicians and introduced   " The Flairs "  to New England . This group was booked at the Rounhouse Motor Inn in Auburn, Maine five night per week and had an impact from Maine to Boston.  Under Roger's stewardship of the The Flairs, Auburn, Maine was put on the music scene  map. 

For the next 35 years , Roger took his love of music to the next level -- "teaching". Students from all around the area including the Portland Westbrook area  flocked to his studio to learn and feel music coming out of their instruments.  He has tutored students in high schools as well as junir highs throughout Maine.  While teaching, he learned to sinthesize his own back-up tracks and fronted them with live brass in all tpes of venues under the name VINTAGE offering music to all who have a taste of music.  The group, VINTAGE , consists of Roger and all his brass as well as his own voval rendition of ballads ad is headlined with a female vocalist, Pam Vaillancourt.  Pam range and interpretation pleases all audiences --stage,pop,and country.      

Roger loves playing the east coast circuit and  snowbirds in  Florida  where he is gaining huge popularity in the Tampa Bay area.          He also performs with The Moon Dawgs a 60s group from Lewiston, Maine and many other groups.      "DON'T FORGET TO SAY HI ON THE GUEST PAGE"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                      

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