{"id":21,"date":"2014-02-12T16:51:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T22:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehalfsteps.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2019-11-04T17:55:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:55:14","slug":"meet-the-steps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thehalfsteps.com\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"For more than 21 years, the Half Steps have been entertaining audiences throughout Minnesota with their unique brand of a cappella music.\u00a0 Gary Zwack, Steve Wilson, Richard Witteman and Paul Fedor bring humor and tight harmonies to an eclectic catalogue of tunes \u2013 from Elvis to the Pointer Sisters.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the\u00a0Half Steps have gained a loyal following from performances at Joetown Rocks, Pioneer Place on Fifth, the Paramount Theatre, Millstream Arts Festival, with\u00a0Collective Unconscious & friends for Beach Boys’ \u201cPet Sounds\u201d, and more.<\/p>\n

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Paul Fedor<\/strong> – Paul is a pharmacist at the Centra Care Health Plaza and has been \u2018dealing drugs\u2019 in the St. Cloud area for the past decade or so. Paul and his exceedingly patient wife, Carrie, are the proud parents of two daughters. When he finds free time, you can usually find Paul with his nose in a Civil War book or dangling precariously from some dizzying height.<\/p>\n

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Steve Wilson <\/strong>– Steve came to St. Cloud in 1973 and has enjoyed careers in teaching, real estate development and marketing. He recently joined the ranks of RE\/MAX Results as a Realtor (thinking of buying or selling?). He has been singing his entire life in choirs, as a church soloist, musical theatre (as \u201cPhantom\u201d) and in the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s with a band called \u201cTen Penny\u201d. Aside from singing, Steve enjoys making sawdust and relaxing on the pontoon with family, 5 grandchildren and friends.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Richard Witteman<\/strong> – When not playing with computers, Richard can be found performing with a lot of musical groups in the area including the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra and Amadeus Chamber Symphony; Monday Night Jazz and George Maurer Jazz Group; and the Fabulous Armadillos and Collective Unconscious. Richard and his wife Cheryl are \u201cowned by\u201d two Siberian Huskies who occasionally allow Richard out of the house to play.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Gary Zwack<\/strong> – Gary is enjoying his first year of retirement from his job as director of bands at Tech High School in St. Cloud. When not singing with the Steps or performing in one of the dozens of other musical groups Gary\u2019s involved with, he likes to stop pucks with his body in a local men\u2019s hockey league.<\/p>\n

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