Teresa Storch Band

‘For all the dynamic gritty, improvisation laced pop, rock, funk and jam band music and grooves on their album Open Your Heart, the focus isn’t so much on Storch’s powerhouse emotional voice, Lacis’ versatile guitarisma or the tight rhythms of Chad E. Mathis (bass) and Travis Moberg (drums). They’re all about the hard hitting, no nonsense and incisive at times but leaning hopeful messaging at a fraught time in our sociopolitical history.’ – Jonathan Wildran, The JW Vibe

Experiencing Teresa Storch Band, you first feel a solid, rhythmic energy: the pulse of a meditative ballad or the infectious groove of a jam-rock tune. Next you notice catchy, guitar-laden melodies. As your ears dig deeper you find lyrics pulling at your heart and soul. This is the result of a singer/songwriter from the Boston area creating music with a guitarist from the New Jersey jam scene.

Teresa Storch Band grew organically from the meeting of (now husband and wife) Teresa Storch and Peter Lacis. Storch’s soulful voice and lyrics combine with Lacis’ soaring and complex guitar arrangements, creating an original, genre-pushing rock sound with jam and roots origins. As a duo, Storch & Lacis have toured internationally, performing at festivals in England, Scotland and Ireland. Now, Teresa Storch Band includes bassist Chad E. Mathis and drummer/recording engineer Chris Wright (both from Billy Shaddox, Antonio Lopez Bands), musicians from the vibrant Boulder scene.

In 2020 Teresa Storch Band began recording a full length album with previous drummer Travis Moberg (Sylva, Dang’o) and producer Tony Dickinson, who tours with the rock-arena show Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Initial recordings were done at Chimaera Sound Studios, with overdubs done with current drummer Chris Wright at Cinder Sound Studio. The result is the full-blown rock-pop album ‘Open Your Heart’, released April 2024.

Previously, Peter Lacis played with jam/funk/prog/pop bands in New Jersey (Barbuda, Jackson Observer) and Colorado (Sylva, Johnny & The Mongrels, Broken Holmes) and studied under Wayne Krantz and David Fiuczynski. Teresa Storch steeped herself in the subways and coffeehouse23s of the New England folk scene after transplanting to the Boston area. The two connected musically in 2013 in Boulder, CO after Storch had paused her 8 years of touring troubadour life, while Lacis was looking for local musicians to play with. Their common ground? A mutual love of live music, and especially Jam bands. In college, Storch fell hard for live bands like Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Dave Matthews Band. Peter favored bands like Phish, The Allman Brothers Band, Soulive and King’s X.