Local Country music Bands

Skeeter Creek started off as a Bluegrass Band in 2002, created by the belated Tim Seabolt of Walton, western Virginia, and Joe Kulewicz from Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. Skeeter Creek happens to be way more than a band, it's a means of life for those skilled, expert artists.

Skeeter Creek has built a reputation as "THE toughest working, most dedicated performers in the future from the Northeast nation musical scene in years". "it is simply what we do. We perform music we want to perform live". It really is over music, it really is ENTERTAINMENT.

Over the past several years, Skeeter Creek has-been luckily enough to possess used among the better performers and performers, performing with designers particularly Lonestar, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Charlie Daniels Band, Confederate Railroad, Darryl Worley, Rhett Atkins, Chad Brock, Jeff Bates, Jim and Jeff Hagar (Hee-Haw), Pirates for the Mississippi, Emerson Drive, Mark Wills, Chris Cagle, Luke Bryan, Ashton Sheppard, James Otto, Billy Currington, Phil Vasser, Tricia Yearwood, Toby Keith, Faith Hill, Montgomery Gentry, Rascal Flatts, Lee Brice, David Allen Coe, Steve Azar, Jaron and the long road to love, Darius Rucker, Ray Scott, Sheryl Crow, plus the late George Jones, to name a few.

Ranked#1 into the Metroland Magazine Reader's Poll for Best Country Band (2011-2015) and Capital District's most readily useful Cover Band in most genres 2013-2015 (Rock, Pop, Country)!

Dave Ahl smashed to the regional music scene back in the early 1990's. He was both a singer and a Drummer, and played the Drums for a few neighborhood nation Bands, including "Broken Aero", which supported recording singer Valerie Delacruza at Countryfest in 1998. Making the Country scene, he started a Pop/Rock/Funk musical organization right here he took the reins as both Drummer and lead Vocalist. Then he took the phase as lead Vocalist for a local Country musical organization for per year . 5. He's a part of this Skeeter Creek family members, and lead vocalist for band.

Renee Lussier-Ahl began performing on stage at age 8, after that formed her band, "Renee Lussier & BranchWater" at age 14.entertaining viewers for the Capital area and surrounding areas from the time! By the time she had been 17, she had the severe satisfaction of revealing the stage with various nationwide acts including Jimmy Wayne, Steve Azar, and CountryFest 2009 (Montgomery Gentry, Heidi Newfield, Jason Michael Carrol, Sara Buxton, therefore the Lost Trailers). Eddie K., of Montgomery Gentry, is delivering up original songs to Renee from Nashville and wishes this lady to co-write with him and Tom Payden (songwriter for Reba McIntyre) for another task collectively could be the co-founder and only original person in Skeeter Creek. He has got already been playing locally considering that the late '80's and has now already been a Country music fan since youth, becoming brought up on musicians and artists like Charile Pride, the Oak Ridge Boys, Charlie Daniels, Willie Nelson, John Denver, and lots of others. Joe plays Fender Telecaster guitars and Fender Amps.

Buddy "COCKER" Tricarick has been playing drums for over 25 years. He's got had the satisfaction of using the services of some very nice neighborhood bands and musicians to incorporate: Maurizio, The Macerators, extended Exposure, Crystal Image, and Back40 Band.
COCKER's equipment contains:
-Crush Sublime Drums
-Mapex Saturn IV Exotic Drums
-Pearl Research Drums
-Paiste Alpha Rock and Paiste 2002 Wild Cymbals
-Sennheiser, Audix, and Shure Drum Mics
When COCKER just isn't behind the kit for SK, he is able to be found calming on their boat on Lake George!

Dominic Paratore studied songs at Berklee College of musical and Suny Albany and very quickly after embarked on their lengthy musical trip. He shortly discovered himself playing keyboards for pop music stone recording group “Ariel” and ended up being the songwriter because of their 1984 release “Rock N Roll Eyes”. Since the 1990’s approached Dominic formed the utmost effective 40 group “FreeTime” and became the bands forward guy and keyboard player until a call originated from nation recording singer “Alex Craig”. Country music along with his piano noises became a normal. Dominic after that formed a songwriting group of Gorman, Capolli and Paratore and several of their songs became features the Alex Craig musical organization.

He now is a pleased person in the Skeeter Creek household. His preferred SK moment is strapping on the keytar. Their animal peeve is maneuvering to a SK gig and his GPS begins recalculating.

Juan “Bon Jovi” Lopez finishes the rhythm section of Skeeter Creek Keeping a steady rhythm, and pulse. Juan is among the top bass players in this region in which he knows the importance of locking in because of the drummer. Going the track along and keeping them moving all begins with Juan Bon Jovi.

Leo Bouchard could be seen playing bass with several regional rings in the belated 80s early 90s. Finding there is a much better importance of good soundman than a bass player Leo devoted his focus to appear. Over the next 15 years Leo worked with many local and national acts such as BB King, Debbie Harry, Boys to men, Kansas, Radio Head and more. In 2006 Leo made a decision to briefly retire from performing sound to refine the nice part of life. Leo came out of retirement and began performing your house noise at the barrel saloon in Albany in which he met Skeeter Creek. The others is record