BIO
When you experience Teresa Storch Band, you first feel the solid, rhythmic energy: the pulse of a meditative ballad or the infectious groove of a jam-rock tune. Next, you notice the catchy, guitar-laden melodies. As your ears dig deeper you’ll find the lyrics pulling at your heart and soul. This is what happens when a singer/songwriter from the Boston area creates music with an electric guitarist from the New Jersey jam scene.
Teresa Storch Band grew organically from the meeting of (now husband and wife) Teresa Storch and Peter Lacis. Storch’s soulful voice and lyrics combine with Lacis’ soaring and complex guitar arrangements, creating an original, genre-pushing rock sound with jam and roots origins. As the Teresa Storch Duo, Storch and Lacis have toured internationally, performing at festivals in Scotland and Ireland.
“Emmylou Harris would find a wealth
John Apice, No Depression Magazine
of inspiration in these songs…”
Teresa Storch Band includes musicians from the vibrant Boulder area. Most recently bassist Chad Mathis and drummer Chris Wright (both from Billy Shaddox, Antonio Lopez Bands) joined. In 2020 the four, plus drummer Travis Moberg (Sylva, Dang’o), began recording a full-length album with producer Tony Dickinson, who tours with the rock-arena show Trans-Siberian Orchestra and is the creator of Sylva. The Teresa Storch Band debut album will be released in March 2024!
Previously, Peter Lacis played with jam/funk/prog/pop bands in New Jersey (Barbuda, Jackson Observer) and Colorado (Sylva, Johnny & The Mongrels, Broken Holmes) and studied under Wayne Krantz and David Fiuczynski. Teresa Storch steeped herself in the subways and coffeehouses of the New England folk scene after transplanting to the Boston area. The two connected musically in 2013 in Boulder, CO after Storch had paused her 8 years of touring troubadour life, while Lacis was looking for local musicians to play with. Their common ground? A mutual love of live music, and especially Jam bands. In college, Storch fell hard for live bands like Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Dave Matthews Band. Peter favored bands like Phish, The Allman Brothers Band, Soulive, and King’s X.
Storch’s last solo record ‘Come Clean’ from 2014 included Peter Lacis on guitar, along with Phil Parker (Gregory Alan Isakov), Bridget Law (Elephant Revival), and Garret Sayers (The Motet). It garnered international attention, chosen for The Top Country/Americana Albums of 2015 by Martin Chilton of The Telegraph (UK). John Apice of No Depression Magazine stated “Emmylou Harris would find a wealth of inspiration in these songs…” Previously she’d worked with Grammy-winning producer Ben Wisch for her 2008 ‘Stream of Concrete’ album. Storch was chosen a 2015 GrassyHill New Folk Finalist at the Kerrville Folk Festival, selected as an Emerging Artist at the 2015 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, and received Honorable Mention in the 2015 Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Songwriter’s Competition.
PRESS
“…SOMEDAY THIS ARTIST WILL BE IN THE LEAGUE WITH EMMYLOU HARRIS, PATTI GRIFFIN, MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, SHAWN COLVIN AND ROSEANNE CASH.”
John Apice, No Depression Magazine
‘Come Clean’ Review:
Martin Chilton, The Telegraph
“Country singer and songwriter Teresa Storch has an interesting background, having a degree in Applied Physics. The title track is lovely and as well as dobro, mandolin and fiddle in bluegrass settings, brass is used well in a couple of soulful and jazzy songs. Guests include James Han (piano, wurlitzer, Rhodes, Hammond B3), Jonathan Byrd (acoustic guitar, harmony vocals) and Bridget Law (violin). She writes well and sings with a depth and conviction, especially on Happy Girl, Sympathy and Before I Go Home. Definitely worth checking out. ★★★★☆”
“She inhabits her songs so fully, you can’t help but be pulled into her world.”
Boston Herald writer Daniel Gewertz
“Mesmerizing vocal riffs…bounding folk-rock sound.”
Northeast Performer
“One of the most inventive writers and solid performers of the current crop of singer/songwriters coming out of Boston. [She] makes me proud to be one.”
veteran singer/songwriter Vance Gilbert
“Infuses contemporary singer/songwriter with traditional folk vibe. It’s no wonder she’s being recognized in her genre.”
Soundcheck Magazine
“The only other time I’ve had this kind of reaction to a performer was when Bonnie Raitt first started doing the rounds of small venues… it was that same thrill of connection.”
Dayle Ann Stratton (fan)
“She could be the love child of Joni Mitchell and Dave Matthews.”
Brian Kelly (fan)
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