Mike and Amy Spies to perform at Fremont Opera House

At age 3, they experienced the exact same babysitter. They’ve performed tunes and sung collectively due to the fact they had been 12 decades aged.

“Amy’s had her personal occupation. I have had mine, but tunes has constantly brought us collectively in a person way or a further above the yrs,” Mike claimed.

This thirty day period, the Spies will arrive alongside one another for a musical performance made to raise money for Fremont Opera Dwelling and rejoice Valentine’s Day.

Mike and Amy Spies and Good friends will execute from 7-9 p.m., Friday, Feb. 17 at Fremont Opera Property, 541 N. Wide St.

The public is invited to the Valentines 7 days celebration. Tickets are $20 just about every. Tickets are offered at the Wise Olde Owl, 516 N. Major St. or by way of fremontoperahouse.org

Aside from the Spies, Fremonter Joy Jensen will sing numerous music. Jim Campbell will engage in drums and Misty Sullivan will be on bass. A few other singers will sign up for the Spies as nicely.

Audio will include alternatives by Neil Diamond, Elton John, The Everly Brothers, Elvis and Roy Orbison.

A dance flooring will be offered. Seating will be at tables. Desserts and champagne will be served. There will be a hard cash bar as nicely. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and snacks will be offered for invest in.

Mike observed that his birthday is on Valentine’s Day, but Feb. 17 is exclusive, as well.

“Feb. 17 — the evening of the show — will be 6 years to the day that we did a show in downtown Fremont and I proposed to Amy,” Mike stated.

“It was even a Friday,” Amy extra.

Amy accepted Mike’s proposal and they married in July 2017.

People need to have not be component of a pair to get pleasure from the opera dwelling function.

“Although it is likely to be a Valentine’s Working day-themed clearly show, it is nevertheless heading to be the wide range of audio that we do,” Mike stated. “You do not have to have a significant other to arrive to the show. We have received a team of women who’ve currently acquired a table and are coming together.”

The Spies search forward to sharing their music with other folks.

“We want folks to come out and enjoy the audio,” he stated. “We have so a great deal fun undertaking what we do.”

Amy added that possessing friends sign up for them in performances helps make it even more exciting.

“Misty Sullivan is a classmate of ours and the past time we all played together was ninth quality when we did a talent convocation at the junior substantial,” Mike said, introducing, “Misty has a band, referred to as DML, which plays at the Eagles (Club).”

This isn’t the initial time the Spies have done at the opera property.

“We love to assist the Fremont Opera Dwelling and the arts in Fremont. We want to have a great function for the opera property and generate some profits for them,” Amy said.

Summit Clinical Staffing in Fremont is sponsoring the function so all proceeds can go to the opera house to support pay back for its maintenance, Mike included.

“People don’t realize how a lot it actually expenditures just for the maintenance of the opera residence to shell out for warmth and water and normal expenses,” reported Lee Meyer, FOH government director.

Meyer included that the opera household isn’t owned by the metropolis or any particular person. It’s run by a board.

The historic opera home, which opened in 1888. In 1975, the opera house turned the very first building in Fremont to be a part of the National Register of Historic Areas.

Meyer believes the community will take pleasure in the Feb. 17 clearly show.

“It will be a entertaining listening and dancing function,” Meyer stated.

Mike said he and Amy have appreciated the local community aid they’ve been given in the course of the several years.

“Every time we participate in in Fremont, the aid is too much to handle and both equally of us are so humbled and grateful for the people today who occur hear us conduct,” Mike mentioned. “It’s just ‘Mike and Amy’ and we just happen to make music, but we enjoy it when every person will come.”