Since 2009 and coming back onto the music scene, the Kelly Parker Band has GREAT Success. Hang on things are JUST kicking into gear. wear your helmets!
"Over the past year, I've been working on new material that is currently not posted here on MySpace. But coming VERY soon! You can hear the songs live at our shows by clicking on any of the 2010 video coverage. OR come on Out and See a show soon!"
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We had such a great time at the WPOR 101.9 "New Faces" Stage at the Old Port Festival June 7th. Check out our video below!
The Kelly Parker Band performing "Famous in a Small Town" by Miranda Lambert at the June 2009 Old Port Festival in Portland, Maine
Original Tune "Better Than I Am" Live 2009
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"Life REALLY Is Like A Canvas So Throw All The Paint On It You Can."
Thats what I have said for years and have lived by. We are all individuals walking around this great big world. "Throwing paint makes us all Unique. "
I'm not your typical country gal. I grew up with a fun and crazy family ~ Two sisters, mom and dad. I spent most of my summers on the road with my father who had a steel erecting company. So in between Christian Camp and visiting relatives, you could find us kids out on the road. I guess that is where I get my love for good cookin country music and truck stops.
Since I was little, you could find me singing and performing to any crowd who would listen. The first performer I saw live on stage was Tanya Tucker. I realized then and there that music and performing would become my heart and soul.
When asked as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up? I was going to be a truck driver or a country singer! Well. one out of two isn't bad!
After spending several years fronting Black Pearl, a successful rock and roll outfit, I returned to my Red Dirt-Country roots and started my own band. I splashed onto the country music scene with some of country's most talented musicians (including Shania Twain guitarist David Malachowski, Howland "Wolf" Bickerstaff, Peter Haggarty and more). Playing in front of thousands of fans at large Agricultural fairs, festivals, radio and television appearances and concerts, I was right at home on the stage!
As my name became more familiar within the country world, I started getting larger venues with a larger fan base and had the honor to perform with and open for, among others, DOUG STONE, BRAD PAISLEY, KEITH URBAN, DARYL WORLEY, STEVE HOLY, JODEE MESSENA, JENNIFER DAY, CHELY WRIGHT, CHALEE TENNISON, SHANA PETRON, BLACKHAWK, SAMMY KERSHAW and many, many more.
In the Spring of 2002, I was back out on the road playing shows such as OP SAIL "The Tall Ships" (to over 400,000 fans over the course of the weekend), Picnic In The Park, Old Port Festival, creating a great realtionship with Maine's own WPOR 101.9 FM Country Radio and traveling up and down the East Coast.
Later that fall, I was offered a radio tour with a well known rock band across Australia, but couldn't get it scheduled right. WHO KNEW then, that NICKELBACK would be such a well known name? Doh!! (File that in the What was I Thinking Category?)
At the cusp of 2004, I returned to the studio at Allaire Studios in New York. With an outstanding and well seasoned group of musicians, my NY crew included:
DAVID MALACHOWSKI-Lead Guitar,PRODUCER, (Shania Twain, Savoy Brown, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen,Janie Fricke,Troy Gentry,John Michael Montgomery and countless others), GARY BURKE-Drums (Bob Dylan, Joe Jackson, Shania Twain, The Band, Donald Fagan, Graham Parker), GRAHAM MABY- Bass (Joe Jackson, Shania Twain, Natalie Merchant,Freedy Johnston), AARON "PROFESSOR LOUIE" HURWITZ - Piano,Organ,Hammond (Rick Danko, The Band, Mercury Rev, Garth Hudson, David Nelson Band), LARRY PACKER-Violin (The Band, player on The Last Waltz, Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys - produced by Jimi Hendrix, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt) and more. A fantastic experience.
I was the 5th artist to ever record at Allaire, right after David Bowe, Nora Jones and Tim McGraw! www.Allairestudios.com
We later mastered the Demo/CD at Bob Ludwig's Gateway Mastering in Portland Maine, in February of 2004 working with Grammy Award winner Adam Ayan (Rascal Flatts, Nine Inch Nails, et). Thanks Bob and Adam!
An even larger "Thank You" goes out to my writing partner, Barry Arving Young, who helped co-write my material. Connection is all I have to say! :o)
Over the past few years, I have been engaged in extensive songwriting and working on a whole NEW Fresh/Energetic stage show and performance.
In my return to the stage in 2009, I had the honor to work aside JOSH TURNER, STEVE WILLIAMS of the WILLIAMS RILEY BAND and KATIE ARMIGER. With the help of all of my fans and my new professional band I am returning to the road and looking forward to a bright successful future!
With a successful 2009 season, it opened the doors for high profile shows in 2010 with CLINT BLACK, AYLA BROWN (American Idol Contestant Season 5) KEITH ANDERSON, JEFF BATES, JOEY & RORY, GWEN SEBASTIAN, BRIDGET TATUM, and BRADY SEALS.
Be looking for the New Kelly Parker Tour in 2011!
Smiles y'all.
XO
Kelly~
