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Eleventh Hour at Frankie's Blue Room (photos by jim scholtens)
Eleventh Hour at Keywester
Eleventh Hour at Best of the Burbs Awards Ceremony accepting Best Dance Band and Best Female Front Person Awards
Eleventh Hour at Gino's East (photos by rich matsumoto)
Eleventh Hour at Keywester (photos by rich matsumoto)
Eleventh Hour has been playing together for many years and in many different forms, here are some of the highlights! First a little history . . . Dennis Murphy, Jerry Martini, Art Mahanna and Craig Chenicek started playing together at the end of 1989. We really didn't play out very often, mostly small private parties - but had a regular practice night that gave us a good excuse to get together weekly for a beer. We very officially named "Metropolis" and "The Edge" for these years. Jerry was then replaced by Bob Oskorp on Electric Guitar and Michael Couglin was added to take on the Lead Vocal responsibility. Things really started happening for us at this point. We selected the name "Eleventh Hour" and probably played 2 or 3 real public shows (at most) a year! Needless to stay Michael got bored and moved to New York to pursue serious music performance and Bob moved with his wife to Australia to pursue a different career opportunity. In 1992, Kevin Tenbrunsel was picked to replace the former Lead Vocalist and Jerry Martini came back to fill the role that he previously held on Lead Guitar. We added a few more shows under our belt (at least a total of 3 or 4 per year) and decided that things had to change if anyone would really want to hear our music. In 1994 Neal Scott took over the percussion responsibility and Kerri Tenbrunsel was selected to accompany Kevin on Lead Vocals. Oh how things do change! We played our first official show with the newly staffed "Eleventh Hour" that winter and people actually came in mass to experience the show. Word spread about us with the local booking agents and we were finally legitimate. After 7 years of good times, Kerri and Kevin decided to start a family and were blessed with a baby girl in November of 2001. Obviously wanting to spend as much time as possible with the new addition, they regretfully hung up their microphones and moved on with their real lives. At about that same time Susan Boppre took up the challenge of lead vocalist and Art Mahanna came back after being away for over 10 years to provide backing vocals, rhythm guitar and electronic drums. Finally, John Durudder was also added to play Saxophone to round out the sound. In May of 2003 Susan decided to get married and leave behind her rock and roll life. We were very fortunate that Kathy Sullivan, formally of the band Sister Envy, was interested in joining the group. She quickly took the lead role and has been taking us to new heights with her unbelievable performances. Finally, at the beginning of 2004, Kathy was transferred to warn sunny Florida and we were lucky enough to get Kerri Tenbrunsel back as our front person. We have been playing together as Kerri, Jerry, Craig, Dennis, Neal, and John ever since!
The original "Metropolis"
Followed by "the edge"
Eleventh Hour in 1998 after a grueling show
A memorable Eleventh Hour show at an outdoor festival.
Our Eleventh Hour line-up with Susan Boppre singing lead and the infamous mask pose.
12/25/2007 |
