Hello… did you click on this link thinking you’d enjoy the latest edition of PAROUSIA MAGAZINE? …Africa’s “FIRST Christian Arts and Literary Magazine”? SORRY, but this is the website for the rock band Parousia that originally hailed from Buffalo NY…
This was (keyboardist) Eric Scheda’s third gig with Parousia. By now, the band was tight with the songs in the set. Eric was an outstanding keyboard player and handled everything we threw at him, “Hocus Pocus” by Focus was a…
This was an “unplugged performance” featuring Patt Connolly on vocals, Bob Lowden on Guitar and Gerry Cannizzaro on a scaled down drum kit. The club was just off Hollywood Blvd. on the corner of Selma and Cosmo. Parousia’s ninth gig…
Parousia started the new-year performing at a club called The Sundown Saloon January 7, 1982 on Route 16, in Chaffee, NY,. The club was a 60-mile round-trip from the Music Mall in Cheektowaga, NY. where the band rehearsed. The club…
The band’s second gig at Shutters & Boards was booked on a Thursday night, October 15th, 1981. Shutters & Boards was a premier rock venue in Niagara Falls, NY and featured live bands on stage six-nights a week. The notoriety…
Archipelago is a noun meaning a group of many islands in a large body of water and just so happens to describe the rock band Parousia to a tee. Each musician distinctly different yet sharing certain artistic influences and goals…
The indelible Parousia, back again at Dad’s Café on Thursday, November 5, 1981. This was the band’s fourth show at Dad’s Café making it clean past the “three-time rule”, we cheated “band death” all thanks to the many loyal and…
This was our first Friday / Saturday back-to-back gig at the Plant 6, July 11-12, 1980. It was mid-summer and baseball season was in full “swing”. Many of the bars and clubs hosted local sports teams for [insert name of…
This was Parousia’s third and final performance for the graduating class of Calasanctius. The grand event was held at Davio’s on Niagara Falls Blvd. Davio’s, an Italian restaurant and banquet hall, had two or three large rooms that I can…
