Big Red, from which we draw our name, is an eighteenth-century farm house in Lee New Hampshire, the home of Katrinka and Michael Pellecchia. There a loosely knit group of musicians began gathering in the summer of 2005 to make retro-country (and western) music for their own pleasure. After several months they collectively remarked "Dang! We oughta' let someone else hear this stuff. "  The musicians of Big Red present a varied and lively program of music from the 1930s to 1960s (and even a few more recent items) that draws on the great diversity of styles that made up American popular music through the middle of the last century: cowboy songs, torch songs, jump blues, honky tonk, swing (western, big band, or otherwise), show tunes, and then some.  

We are:

Dan Beller-McKenna:	pedal steel guitar, dobro, vocals
Joanne Connolly:	lead vocals, snare drum
Michael Pellecchia:	bass, vocals
Bruce Stelter:	guitar, mandolin, lead vocals

 

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