Jon Arterton and James Mack live in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Both lived in Greenwich Village in New York City, two blocks apart, but didn’t meet until moving to Provincetown, where their mutual love of singing brought them together. Thanks to the “activism” of four courageous Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court judges, they were able to legally wed on April 16, 2005. They released their first CD in 2011 entitled “Legally Married… and the sky didn’t fall!”
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Jon Arterton is a singer-conductor-vocal arranger-actor who began his musical journey as a choirboy at Washington’s National Cathedral. He holds a Master’s Degree in choral conducting and voice from The New England Conservatory of Music. He was the founder and vocal arranger of The Flirtations, the proudly gay a cappella group seen on HBO, Good Morning America and in the film Philadelphia. He toured with the group for a decade, singing in such places as Carnegie Hall and Yankee Stadium. He also holds an MFA degree in theater and appeared as an actor in The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall on Broadway. Jon moved from New York City to Provincetown at the very tip of Cape Cod in 1993. There he conducts The Outer Cape Chorale, a 140-voice community chorus he founded in 2002. He gives periodic Singing Workshops, and serves as the Director of Music at Provincetown’s U.U. Meeting House.
James Mack was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised Southern Baptist! In high school, he was president of the Bible Club. He went to a Southern Baptist University to become a preacher, but when he came out in his early 20’s he decided to become a choir director instead, and transferred to Memphis State University where he majored in voice. He soon moved to New York City and began a career in men’s fashion as a store manager and buyer for Paul Stuart and Ermenegildo Zegna. James moved to Provincetown in 1997and began singing in the choir at the local Universalist Unitarian Meeting House where he met his future husband Jon. He is now a chaplain at the Meeting House where he performs weddings and commitment ceremonies.
