TRICKBAG is :
LARRY FEUDO - guitar MICHAEL HICKEY - bass, vocals
DONNA PANCHEZAK - vocals
PAUL PANCHEZAK - drums
LES SMITH - harmonica, guitar, vocals
- TRICKBAG is a Hamilton-based band that has been entertaining audiences on record and in concert for over a decade. Their sound is an exciting blend of blues, rock, rhythm and blues and soul music. It's where the sultry sounds of Memphis, New Orleans and the Mississippi delta meet the gritty urban electric tones of Chicago and Detroit. And yet it's also the sound of TRICKBAG's "neck of the woods" as well. Hamilton has long been the center of a rockin' blues tradition that goes back to the days of Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks.
- It might be simpler to name the musicians that the members of TRICKBAG haven't worked with than those with whom they have, at one time or another, crossed musical paths. TRICKBAG together and individually has shared the stage and recording studio with the likes of the King Biscuit Boy and Kelly Jay (of Crowbar), Guitar Mikey, Michael Fonfara (Downchild Blues Band), Ken Whitely, Ronnie Hawkins, Dave Rave, Leo Sullivan and Steve McDade (the Butcher Boys' Horns), Denis Keldie, (the Lincolns), David Essig, Jesse O'Brien, Tim Gibbons, Jackie Washington, Sonny Del Rio and Jeff Healy.
- The band's first CD - TRICKBAG - on Peerless records received notice in publications as far flung as California's Living Blues and the record industry bible Billboard. In 2005 they released a live CD - CACTI REDUX - which was favourably received by fans and media alike. Their latest project TRICKNOLOGY, a new studio CD of Trickbag originals, was released to rave reviews in September 2008.
- Long standing favorites in their home town the group has been a popular part of community events like A Taste of Hamilton, the Hamilton Sesquicentennial celebrations, the Downtown Mustard Fest, the Burlington Rotary Ribfest, the Hess Village Jazz and Blues Festival, It's Your Festival, Thorald's Canal Bank Shufflefest, the Dundas Cactus Festival, the St. Catharines Ribfest, Toronto's Harbourfront Blues Festival, the Royal Botanical Gardens' Jazz and Blues Concert Series, the Ancaster Old Mill Race and the Festival of Friends.
- Whether it be an acoustic or electric setting; a nightclub, a party or a festival - TRICKBAG's unique and exciting brand of rocking blues is guaranteed to entertain and excite any audience.