Concert 1

Shelly Bottorff
As of January 2017, Shelly Bottorff became Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association’s first Executive Director and in 2018 joined the Iowa Central team as Community Coordinator for the Arts as well as an accompanist for the performing arts department. She graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in Music Education and holds a certificate of Coach Accompanying from the University of Minnesota.

Shelly has been involved in many facets of the arts, performing on stage in more than a dozen musical theatre productions and operas, as well as the lead singers in several bands including Vinyl and Second Nature and Wheelhouse with Iowa Rock and Roll Association inductee Dean Davis.

Shelly is a traveling accompanist and musical director for the Broadway Dreams – an international program that seeks to empower aspiring young artists through acting, voice and dance training. Through Broadway Dreams, Shelly has worked with industry professionals including Annette Tanner, Otis Sallid, Tituss Burgess, Sara Jean Ford and Rachel Hoffman to name a few.

Locally, Shelly has been seen behind the piano for several productions including Annie, The Music Man, Oklahoma, Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma, The Addam’s Family, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins, Songs for a New World, and local Cabarets and has been the accompanist for a variety of community groups such as Sonshine Singers, St. Ed’s Choir, Comedia Musica Players, Stage Door Productions and Manson Junior and Senior High Schools, FD Senior High, Webster City Community Schools and more.