Band: The Chasers
Year: 2020
Home: Chatham-Kent
Genre: Country music
Style: Cover Band
Formed: 2012
Notes: The Chasers are a professional favourite in the Country Music cover scene, in this area.
Members:
Brent Martin – Lead vocals
Mike St.Pierre – Rhythm guitar
Chris St.Pierre – Drums
Jared Lozon – Bass
Brian St.Pierre – Lead guitar
Links:
* Facebook link here.
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Band: PHYZIKAL GRAFFITI
Year: 2019
Home: Chatham-Kent
Genre: Classic Rock Covers.
Formed: Nov. 2016.
Band Members:
Mitchell Robinson – Guitar
Mitchell Doxtater – Bass, vocals.
Kevin Slater – Lead Vocals / Keys
Dwayne Foulon – Drums
Notes:
* Bringing to you covers of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd and so much more…It’s a 60’s, 70’s and some 80’s Rock N Roll extravaganza!!!
* Performed at USB, The Elephant’s Nest, Frendz, & the Jazzbah.
Links:
* facebook here.
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Band: Rumblefish
Year: 2019
Genre: Classic/new rock cover band
Home: Sarnia Ontario
Formed: 1996
Chatham Connection: Singer Matt Johns is from Chatham Ontario. He began fronting the band in 2005.
Members:
Wayne Reid
Matt Johns
Todd Pires
Julius Sneider
Links:
* Facebook here.
* Homepage here.
* Interview link here.
* Youtube here.
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Coyne Road
Band: Coyne Road
Year: 2015
Genre: Cover band 60’s-90’s Rock Favorites.
Home: Chatham Ontario Canada
Notes: Covering artists such as Steve Miller, ZZTop, Bad Company, Tesla, The Cars, David Wilcox, The Tragically Hip, CCR, Lynard Skynyrd and many more…
Coyne Road is a 5 pc band with seasoned musicians that have been individually playing for decades.
Members:
Carol Abrams – Bass
Sean McLean – Drums
TJ Boylan – Singer
Chris Bird – Lead Guitar & Back up Vocals
Mike Putnam – Rythm Guitar & Back up Vocals
Links:
* Website.
* Live cover.
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Vocalist: Stephanie Rhodes
Band: Run For Cover (Cover band)
Year: 2013
Home: Formerly Chatham, now Salt Spring Island, B.C.
Current: Vocalist for the dance pop rock cover band ‘Run For Cover’.
Notes:
RUN FOR COVER is a pop dance rock cover band based out of Victoria, BC. You can usually find them playing some of Victoria’s best pubs including the Bard and Banker and the Irish Times.
The band is based on great singing and feel good music that makes you dance. The RUN FOR COVER repertoire ensures something for everyone playing music from the sixties to today’s hits.
RUN FOR COVER is Stephanie Rhodes on lead vocals, Matt Johnson (of 5440) on drums, Lane Arndt on guitar/vocals and Jeff Pawson on bass. Just try not to dance. We dare you. 🙂
Discography:
Stephanie Rhodes – 2010 – Rhodes to Somewhere.
Links for Stephanie Rhodes :
Website.
YouTube.
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Cover Band: Bent Str8
Genre: Classic Rock
Home: Chatham
Year: 2011
Members:
Dwayne Boismier
Darryl Boismier
Terry Barker
About: BENT STR8 is a hard hitting 3 peace Band. Consisting of Lead Guitar/ Harmonica/Accoustic , Drums and Bass. All three members are lead singers which makes for sweet three part harmony and also makes the Band sound BIGGER than it really is. BENT STR8’s set list consists of anything from Pink Floyd to the Hip. Neil Young to Uncle Cracker and everything in between. The Band also has some Country roots which ables them to reach a wider range of audience covering tunes from Johnny Cash, Keith Urban and Toby Keith just to name a few.
Current shows (at time of print)
Dec 31 2011 – New Years Eve Bash @Central Hotel in Pain Court
Dec 9-10, 2011 @ Big Shots Billiards, Chatham.
Dec 3, 2011 at 7:00pm @ Ranch 2000 ( 23496 Centre side rd. Chatham )
Contact them on Facebook “Bent Str8t”.
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Band: Lyra
Circa: 1987-1989
Genre: Rock Cover band
Home: Chatham
Members:
Scott Barnes – Vocals
Steve “Skull” Saunders – Guitar
Mark Devries – Guitar
Dave Davidson – Bass
Brad Ondrovcik – Drums
The above pictures were taken at the Aberdeen in Chatham.
Notes:
Brad went on to play with Sweet FA, Rockus (later called Blu Bones) and then Legend Killers. As of 2010, he drums for ’63 Monroe
Steve moved away and became a touring/gigging musician. Among others, he has played with Thunder Circus, The Flu, Killer Dwarfs, Fear Disorder, Mike Reno, Jimi Jamison, Alan Frew and Revolver. He has played in about 5o different bands over the years as of 2010.
Scott Barnes plays for the band ‘Teethen Freeks’ Circa 2010.
Dave went on to play in (among others) Tangled Puppet (mid 90’s), Manpower, and 7th Reign before moving away in the late 2000’s.
Visit Steve’s website here.
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Artist: Jani Jakovac
CD Release: Take Cover
Year: 2004
Home: Chatham Ontario
Resides: Vancouver
Notes: Jani records a collection of songs by other artists that she likes, which makes “Take Cover” a great name for this collection of covers.
Bio:
Who is this Jani anyhow? Where has she been hiding? Well, actually it is Jani (jay-nee) Jakovac (jack-o-vack) but who she is can be as tricky as the name. Because she is many things. She is a singer, songwriter, pianist, actor and an athlete to name a few. She’s funny, she’s intense, she’s energetic, she’s controlled, she’s sweet, but don’t ever get on her bad side…not so sweet. She is chic while she owns 6 pairs of slippers and wears flannels to bed. Clearly, she is a Gemini with issues.
She studied drama and played varsity volleyball at the University of Guelph in Ontario. The day after graduating, she moved to Vancouver to pursue an acting career. This led her to few acting roles and many bartending jobs. She then moved to Europe to benefit from something else she had put many years into…. volleyball. She played and coached professionally in Denmark for three years.
So, that was where she’s been “hiding”. If hiding was her intent, this would be about the only place this 6 foot blonde could have remained inconspicuous. But inconspicuous she definitely was not when she was hopping up on stages in Copenhagen and joining bands in impromptu performances.
Growing up in a house that thrived on music, it was always a part of her, a necessary element of her being. She knew she could sing, but strangely enough, she did not think it was “a big deal”. And since the only people that had ever heard her sing were friends and family, Jani assumed that they were merely being polite when they told her that she had talent. Belting out the blues or luring people into a trance with her sultry sounds was just her own act of passion. But the response to her music made it undeniably clear that people wanted to hear more. The music she writes is a soulful mix of the different styles she grew up listening to. The diverse music she appreciated were just a turn of the radio dial away from one another. The stations were numerous. The stations were from Detroit.
She grew up in the small city of Chatham, Ontario, 45 minutes over the border from the Motown. Her influences, ranging from classical to funk, are revealed in every song that she writes. Her often autobiographical lyrics leave audiences thankful for the living she has done. No, music has not been the only part of Jani’s life, but it has been the strongest, most dynamic, most necessary, always with her, traveling to every place she has been. The ever positive, vibrant, energetic Jani, admits that her music is a therapeutic device that she has used for many years to keep the smile on her face. Audiences are thrilled she has lived enough life to have stories to tell with her songs and young enough to make it interesting.
Visit Jani online. Visit her website to order the CD.
http://www.janij.com/
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