The Boy Band Diaries feat. The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra Boogie Band

Two-time “Best of Cincinnati” winners NO PROMISES Vocal Band celebrate their tenth anniversary and a century of male tight harmony singing in a concert featuring the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra Boogie Band and more than a dozen past NO PROMISES singers in the beautifully restored Art Deco splendor of Oakley’s 20th Century Theater. Originating from a 2021 mini-tour collaboration between NO PROMISES and the KSO, Boy Band Diaries includes favorites by early recording groups The Ink Spots and the Hi Los, Motown groups including The Temptations and The Jackson Five, classic pop and rock groups like the Eagles and Crosby, Stills & Nash; and, of course, 90s boy bands including Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees and *NSYNC.

Featuring Joshua Steele, Buck Hinman, Kaeden Kass, Joey Pace, David Baum, Chancellor Waye and Nat Comisar; with J.R. Cassidy and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra Boogie Band; and special guests Schyler Vargas, Noah Berry, Ryan Strand, Corey Tucker, Jeff Grooms, Ken Holdt, Deondra Means, Charlie Harper, Paul Phillips, Michael Robertson, Matt Croy and Kyle Karnes.

About The Bands:

NO PROMISES Vocal Band is a Cincinnati-based professional a cappella ensemble bringing exhilarating vocals and breathtaking harmonizations to jazz and popular music favorites from 1940s classics to today's jams. Citybeat “Best of Cincinnati” winners in 2017 and 2022, the group has entertained at festivals, concert series, stadiums and performing arts centers throughout the state. Its members have graced the stages of Broadway, fronted major symphony orchestras, and backed the likes of Jim Messina, Steve Winwood, Kenny Loggins and POCO. In their day-to-day lives, the men of NO PROMISES are clinical psychologists, television producers, concert promoters, therapists, choir directors and real estate moguls with a passion for fine a cappella singing.

In 2024, NO PROMISES was honored to make their debut at Great American Ballpark, performing the national anthem for two Cincinnati Reds games, including a nationally televised tilt with the Boston Red Sox. During the year prior, the group premiered a newly commissioned work as part of Cincinnati May Festival's 150th anniversary season and joined Broadway veteran Sally Wilfert in concert at historic Memorial Hall in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. 2021 saw the ensemble's debut of “The Boy Band Diaries,” a collaboration with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra featuring male vocal hits spanning the past century. The group’s numerous other collaborators and guest artist appearances have included the Gem City Chorus, the Southern Gateway Chorus, the Sycamore Community Singers, the Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers, the Queen City Sisters and the Cincinnati Collaborative Ringing Project. NO PROMISES has released three recording projects: A No Promises Christmas (2016), All Wet (2018) and The Nines (2019), as well as the pandemic-era virtual concert, NO PROMISES Saves Christmas.

The members of NO PROMISES are Joshua Steele (resident of Kennedy Heights), Buck Hinman (Walnut Hills), Kaeden Kass (Mt. Airy), Joey Pace (Clifton), David Baum (Montgomery), Chancellor Waye (Mason) and Nat Comisar (Symmes Township). Individual bios available here.

“Their harmony is tight, their arrangements are delightfully eclectic… they sound like a cross between the Four Freshmen and Pentatonix.” – David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer

“For my money, the best a cappella group in the region” – Thom Mariner, Movers & Makers

The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1992 (as the Northern Kentucky Symphony) with a mission to make symphonic music and the concert experience attractive,

accessible and affordable for Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati residents. Since its inception, the KSO has demonstrated a unique ability to make the concert experience relevant and entertaining to its audiences while maintaining high performance standards and integrity.

The KSO has collaborated with local arts organizations such as the Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Ballet, the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Playhouse in the Park, the Taft Museum as well as local and international acts like Over the Rhine, Blessid Union of Souls, 2Cellos, Igudesman and Joo, Hasbro Toys and NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

For 33 years The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra has taken the “phony” out of symphony through live thematic concerts which culturally enrich, educate and entertain the residents of the entire region. Nostalgia-focused KSO subsidiary groups like The Newport Ragtime Band, The Devou-Doo Daddies, The Flood Wall Jazz Quintet, The K-so Combo, and the KSO Boogie Band take a variety of musical genres to neighborhoods and municipalities throughout the Tristate.

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