The Bridge Band is New York’s premier country/folk band having been chosen Country Group Of The Year by Airplay International for 2003. The Band features original music by Jerry Baldassaro and Charley Frehley (brother of KISS rocker Ace Frehley).
Frehley and Baldassaro founded the band in 1992 and were actually a country/folk group connected to the famed Fast Folk Café in New York City. In 2002, after appearing on The Nashville Video Showcase TV Show, KMA Records invited them to join their label and record a truly “country” album. Featured on their latest album, Headin' Home - The Nashville Session, are Dave Robbins (house pedal steel for the Grand Ol Opry) and Jim Frable (keyboardist fro the Leroy Van Dyke band for many years).
Charley Frehley: Songwriter, guitar, bass, keyboards, lead and harmony vocals; Bronx, New York. Charley was born into a family in which music was part of everyday life. His dad was an accomplished pianist and his mom played piano for the church choir. You may know his brother Paul Frehley — better known as “Ace” Frehley of KISS fame — with whom Charley began his musical career in a rock group called Microorganism. Charley hung up his rock guitar to go on to study classical music as well as sing lead solo in the choir.
Main Axes - Ovation 1985 Anniversary - Ovation 1967 Josh White Slot neck
Jerry Baldassaro: Songwriter, six- and twelve-string guitar, bass, lead and harmony vocals and melodica; Bayside, New York. Jerry set out to be a stage actor, little knowing he would be performing his music for audiences in the U.S. and Canada and having his songs heard as far away as Australia. As a child Jerry performed as a soloist in church choirs and won various state competitions, which got him an audition with the famed Vienna Boys Choir. Fearing he would lose his family as well as his family jewels, Jerry, fortunately, did not make the cut. Guitar has always been a part of Jerry’s life, both in formal study and in countless hours spent at the old Greenwich Village clubs watching the masters of folk and emulating their techniques.
Main Axes - Taylor 710ce and a Taylor K65 (Koa 12 String)
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