Amy Banks Music

Amy Banks is a singer, actress, producer, television personality, and arts professional who has spent the last few decades making music, making things happen, and occasionally making a very large room dance.

Originally from Minnesota and proudly based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Amy’s performing life has taken her from Atlanta theater stages and Walt Disney World’s Festival of the Lion King to jazz clubs, concert halls, television sets, Moscow, and plenty of local stages she still loves. She joined the resident company at American Music Theatre in 2002 and, in the years since, has built a career that refuses to stay in one lane.

Amy has released five independent albums and created a string of acclaimed concert productions celebrating the music of Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, and more. Her fan-funded Amy Sings Aretha: A Motown Love Story was recorded live before a sold-out crowd at Millersville University’s Ware Center and later toured regionally. She has performed with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, appeared at venues including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Berks Jazz Festival, and made her European club debut at Moscow’s Soyouz Kompozitorov Jazz Club.

For a decade, Amy also co-led Central City Orchestra, the award-winning 10-piece dance band she and Katie Robinette launched through Robin-Banks Entertainment. CCO became known for powerhouse horns, sharp arrangements, packed dance floors, and what Amy still calls “the hardest fun you can have in heels.”

Today, Amy brings that same creative energy to her work as Arts Operations Manager at Penn State Harrisburg’s Kulkarni Theatre, helping connect artists, students, and audiences through live performance.

Offstage, she is a lifelong learner, recovering entrepreneur, enthusiastic museum-and-coffee adventurer, fitness and lawn-mowing enthusiast, and devoted human to two cats—Possum and Nugget—and her mom, Myra.

It has, indeed, been a good run. And she is not done yet.