This was the band’s second show at “the Gate”. The club was full of South Buffalo locals on a Saturday night and they were ready to party. Nary the band Parousia to disappoint! The first go-around at the Starting Gate,…
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 the late 80’s… MTV and its constant onslaught of music videos, each trying to outshine the other, launched a visual revolution for bands and made local acts take a hard look at their overall image. It was now…
On June 28, 1986, Parousia held its eighth show-case performance at the Chamber, the band’s personal art and performance space bordering the band’s home cities of Kenmore and Buffalo. The strategic location of the Chamber gave our friends and fans…
It was recently brought to our attention there was a band named Parousia BEFORE the existence of the Buffalo, New York based rock-band Parousia… or at the very least the two Parousia’s existed at the same time. Thank- goodness we…
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…