Lineup: Jack Blauvelt, Maggie Blauvelt, John Ricatelli, Parker Lusk, Danny Hurley. Featuring Members Of: Lord Baltimore, Orangeabove. Influences: The Strokes, The Pixies, Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, The Beatles, Motown.
This local group’s terrific moniker was the result of a kids-say-the-darndest moment, as later remembered by the kid himself. According to the band, “When [frontman] Jack Blauvelt was a young child, his parents told him he was having a little sister [vocalist Maggie]. When asked what he wanted to name his sister, he replied ‘Dana Swimmer.’ True story!”
Maggie was named, well, Maggie, but the imagined name lives on in fine form. Unabashedly excited, obviously talented and constantly gigging, Dana Swimmer’s rhythmic, soul-inflected sound owes a great debt to the millennial indie-rock the group’s five fresh-faced members were reared on, but there are some decidedly more established influences at work, too. Together, it makes for a bright, brave sound. Young, energetic and hard-working, Dana Swimmer is pretty well poised to make its mark.
Next Show: Check facebook.com/DanaSwimmer
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