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| Dreamkiller |
For a band to be successful locally it needs to have three things: good musicians, good on-stage persona and good promotion. For a band to be successful on a regional or national level it takes so much more... GREAT musicians, GREAT on-stage persona and GREAT promotion but it also takes ORIGINAL music instead of covers. Friday night at Somewhere Else Tavern I experienced just such a band - Dreamkiller.
Dreamkiller is a four-person rock band based out of Greensboro, NC and fronted by a dynamic singer/songwriter/performer named Christy Johnson. With Erny Galvan on bass, Jim O'Gara on guitar and Paul Salas on the drums this quartet creates a very tight sound that powerfully compliments Christy's vocals and together the group delivered a performance that felt as though it could transport you to a mystical place.
Friday night was the band's homecoming show, having just returned from a trek to California where Christy was honored at the 2010 Los Angeles Music Awards as the "National Female Vocal Performer of the Year," an honor to bookend her 2009 Carolina Music Award as the "Best Female Rock Artist of the Year." The band as a whole also won the 2009 Carolina Music Award for "Rock Band of the Year."
Johnson is a dynamic performer onstage with enormous power behind her vocals while Galvan's background vocals and energized performance on bass provided the necessary elements to make the bands music expand and fill the air instead of just being a wall of music. Couple that with O'Gara's masterful guitar work and Salas' driving the performance on drums and Dreamkiller becomes a solid ensemble capable of headlining bigger venue's.
You can keep up to date with Dreamkiller news on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dreamkillermusic.
-Charlton Wiggins-
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