PANACHE
PANACHE is a female fronted rock group who strives to make music that makes you want to shake your butt all day long!
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
The Universe is Eternally Changed
In the summer of 2002 PANACHE was formed just outside of Albany. As the name of the band suggests, the quartet creates rock music with style and elegance. PANACHE isn't confined to one category of music; it is an aggressive blend of jazz, blues, jam-band sound, and rock. Guitarist Dave Ives, Drummer Ken Davis, Bassist Kevin Lee, and VocalistPianist Kara Storti are the members of the group. PANACHE endeavors to create its own signature style, a full sound of soulful piano and vocals, trippy guitar riffs, funky bass lines, and dynamic beats. With the influences of Jimmy Hendrix, Fiona Apple, Deftones, Incubus, and BB King, PANACHE hopes to appeal to a variety of musical tastes.
The Band came together in pieces. Dave and Kara had been writing songs together for a couple of years when Ken joined the duo. From the first practice, There was immediate chemistry and excitement. Once Kevin bcame part of the mix, the band was complete and ready to play shows locally. Throughout the summer and into the fall PANACHE booked as many shows as possible, playing at various local venues and coffee bars.
PANACHE continues to play show locally in Albany, Saratoga Springs and Schenectady, and also in the college towns of Ithaca and Oneonta. They have been featured on channel 103.1 Big Break and have appeared on Fox News. The band's main focus is to expand their fan base and seize as many performance opportunities as possible. They work to promote themselves so "PANACHE" will no longer be just an unfamiliar word out of the dictionary.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Yes In and around the capital district of New York we love to play anytime anywhere almost all the shows have been special moments because its always fun even if its just bands playing for the other bands We love to play
Your musical influences
We all have slightly different tastes in music which makes the music we play more intresting as different influences fuse to form what we play
Anything else?
We have two mascots Jimmy the frog and Phatz the elephant actually there not just mascots they write all our songs so its there fault if you dont like them
