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The Marty Gilman Band was established in 1983. Great care was taken in recruiting members for the perfect wedding band. We enjoy performing at wedding receptions, parties, anniversaries, and corporate functions, which affords us the opportunity to showcase our versatility, playing a wide range of musical styles, from the 1930s to the present.

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Marty Gilman is heard on saxophones, keyboards and vocals, and is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music.  A high school/college music educator, Marty is responsible for musical arrangements, and has performed with such artists as the Temptations, Jefferson Starship, David Ruffin and Tommy James.  He is also a wedding coordinator and a member of the New England Wedding Professionals.

Lorna Pezanelli, lead vocalist/keyboards, comes from a family of professional musicians and has been trained as a classical pianist.  Lorna has performed with Chris Brubeck.  She has sung with various nightclub bands and theater productions throughout her career. Lorna is currently enrolled in Lesley University’s Masters program in the performing and visual Arts. Lorna and Marty married in 1997 and performed at their own wedding!  

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Eric Friedman, guitarist/vocalist, hails from New York. He is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and holds a master’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. Eric is an exciting guitarist and soulful vocalist.  He operates a recording studio, Iroquois Music Productions.

Tom Duval, bassist/vocalist, is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music's Preparatory Department and of Columbia University in New York.  He has over 30 album credits as a singer, bass player and guitar player, including recordings by Jack Hardy, Lillie Palmer, Louise Taylor, and Boston blues band Fatwall Jack.  He has layed down the low end with PowerPlay in New Hampshire, Central Massachusetts favorite Flatcat/Primitive Cool, Beatles cover band the Glass Onion, the Tim Pike Band, and many others.  If he can't get your groove thing going, it must be broken. 

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Ron Dagle, drummer, holds a degree in music from Westfield State College. He has performed with Crosswinds, The Robert A Band, Blues Deluxe and the Paramounts.  Ron’s beat makes you want to dance!
  
 

John Russo, trumpet and vocals, is also a graduate of the Berklee college of Music and is a high school music educator. John excels at singing the hits of Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and others, when not adding his instrument to the horn section. John is an outstanding entertainer.  

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Jim Russo, saxophone, one of two twin brothers that round out the horn section.  Jim is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and has performed with Chuck Jackson and Chubby Checker. Jim is a public school music educator. Only identical twin brothers can play together like Jim & John do!

 

Right from the start, 
you will see that we 
are as interested in you 
as you are in us!

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