What kind of music would an actor, a ballet dancer, and a fiction, prose writer create if suddenly they found themselves in a room with piano, drums and bass? Imagine Chopin sitting in with Led Zeppelin or Beethoven jamming out with the Smashing Pumpkins; Claire Gonwa, the three piece rock band, aspires to create a sound that is as stimulating as their live performances and as manic as Batman’s Two-Face. Dynamic, piano driven rock may describe Claire’s individual sound, but with Brad Surface on bass and Alex Whitaker on drums, the band’s sound has been described as being something like Letter’s to Cleo, Radiohead, Muse, and the Cranberries.

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Their self released ep, Blind Stars and Crazy Diamonds, is both visually and aurally aesthetic. Working with Belmont’s best engineers and the band’s own creative talents, Claire Gonwa’s packaging is both stimulating and smart; How many bands do you know that have already planned and incorporated marketing into foreign demographics?!

You should be interested to know Gonwa’s ep was on the top 10 storewide sales at Nashville’s (West End) Tower Records following their ep release in-store performance, and was a happy nest-egg on the Employee Suggested Listening Station until Tower disbanded. Recently, Claire Gonwa was featured as a Local Lightning Spotlight band by Lightning 100 (WRLT 100.1 FM Nashville's most popular indie radio station. Lightning 100 gave Gonwa a weeks worth of airplay and free promo.

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Claire Gonwa loves to LIVE it! Live performance is a key component to the growing band. The Claire Gonwa band believe in entertainment. Creative show content is queen to exquisite sound quality when you attend a Gonwa concert. Not flavor of the week, but more like an infinite lot of sweets and goodies to pick from, Gonwa’s sweet flavors keep fans coming back for more in this recipe for success. Antics have included but are no limited to: Doll House Charactr Play Bad Luck and BIRDS!

WE would write more, but alas there’s no time. Work’s too demanding, but we’ve info online; who we are, what we’re not, and the whole bloody lot of details to detain you on our website: www.myspace.com/clairegonwa