In the Studio...
The full-length CD, Saving My Sanity, was released on July 18th, 2008. The five track CD, Time to Escape, was released in June 2010. My Way was released in June 2011.
The Backstory
Veteran musician and Briola-label-owner Brian Maes worked with Jessica when she was the lead singer and bassist in a garage band and suggested that she make a CD to go to the next level of the music biz. Jessica started to record the CD with session players, the best of the best around Boston. Musicians Brian Maes, Kook Lawry, Tim Archibald, Paul Soares, and Ricky Plourde, veterans of many recordings, helped make the early tracks stand out. But something wonderful happened during the recording in 2007...
The Band Formed
Jessica found first-rate musicians her own age to help finish the tracks. She managed to pull together a group of kids to form a band that play live and do justice to every track on the first CD. Furthermore, the band is still together and has toured New England from Presque Isle Maine to New Haven, CT. They play about 70 gigs a year, and have added NY, PA, NJ, and CA to their list as well since then.
In 2008
In 2010
In 2011
The Players...
First Cam Pelkey, the drummer, joined in early. He had worked with Jessica in a previous band. His driving beat and onstage showmanship look like they belong to someone twice his age.
Cody Nilsen, lead guitarist, was the next player, protege of the veteran Kook Lawry who played on some tracks of the first CD. Cody was the one that Kook thought could take on the challenge of following in his footsteps.
Finally, Andy Covino, keyboardist, student of Brian Maes and former summer garage bandmate of Jessica's, joined in to complete the sound.
The Experience behind the band...
The first CD was produced, arranged, engineered, and mixed by Brian Maes, owner of Briola records. He is a former member of the Billboard charting RTZ and songwriter of the top 20 Billboard hit, When Your Love Comes Back Around. He opened for Aerosmith and for U2, and he toured around the world with Peter Wolf: he knows the music biz. He currently has his own band and also is the lead singer and keyboardist for Ernie and the Automatics.
The second CD, Time to Escape, was produced by Brian Maes and engineered by Angleo Caputo at SpiritHouse Studio (Martin Sexton, etc.) in Northampton, MA.
Formation Date: February 28, 2007
Band Members: Jessica Prouty, Cam Pelkey, Cody Nilsen, Andy Covino
Sounds Like: Heavy Modern Rock that tells stories.... Discover us and help write the story.
Hometown: Marblehead, MA
Brief Description:
The Jessica Prouty Band, a 4-piece, female-fronted, teenage-rock band, has won the John Lennon Educational Tourbus Daddy's Junky Music Rockin' Roland Battle of the Bands, won first place in Children's Hospital Boston Notes for the Cure Battle for Best Song, been in the top 10 of Little Stevens Underground Garage Battle of the Female-fronted bands, second in NAMM-sponsored nationawide SchoolJamUSA contest in CA where Jessica also received best vocalist and Cam best drummer, and all four band members won scholarships to Berklee College of Music summer programs. Two now attend Berklee. Their original songs have been played on Boston's 92.5 The River, WFNX, WAAF, WATD, Pixy 103, plus WBRU (RI) and WTOS, 106.3 The Bone (both Maine). Enjoyed by all ages, they've played Six Flags Amusement Park, the Regent Theater, Hampton Beach, NH, Higher Ground, VT, state parks, camps, and numerous VT, ME and MA fairs. They range in age from 17-19 years old.