Quinzy
@quinzyband
Winnipeg, MB Canada
Joined Apr 4, 2007
Dave Pankratz, Sandy Taronno, Jason Pankratz, Jamie Taronno
It’s December, 2002. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: The Palomino Club. A trio of young men sits around a table during a break and decides that they’ve had enough Top 40 music. They want to write and perform their own songs. Sandy Taronno, Dave Pankratz and Brian James start a group they call ‘The Good Fight’.
Many rehearsals later they come to the conclusion that this name will better suit a song. They therefore change the name of their new band to ‘Sharp House Candy’. Curiously, only a little while later, they repeat this odd process, name a song ‘Sharp House Candy’ and re-name their band “Quinzy”. A pattern begins to emerge…
Their first gig was at “Joe’s Garage” in Transcona. An audience member at that time thought they were called ‘quinsy’ which is actually a tonsil infection.
The group began recording very soon afterward and released their first E.P. “We’re Here to Help” in 2003. Also in 2003 they performed their first ‘Xmas Show’ which has since become an annual tradition, occurring with the same frequency as group name changes. By December that year they had realized that in no conceivable context could anyone (not even James Keelaghan) use the word “Qunizy” as part of a lyric or song-title. To this day they remain ‘Quinzy’.
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