Melia Maccarone

Melia began her music career as a guitarist at the age of 16. She had been trying to get her parents to let her take guitar lessons after going to her first Green Day show during it’s “American Idiot “ tour two years earlier. They made her wait two years before taking up lessons, which she feels propelled her motivation. She excelled at guitar very quickly, practicing 6-8 hours a day and within eight months of taking up the instrument had formed her first band with a couple of high school friends. Although she had always written poems and lyrics, while with her first band she also began writing her own music and lyrics and started playing some of that original music at shows. She never thought of herself as a vocalist but she took on that role in her first band as well and wanting to sing to her fullest potential she began taking vocal lessons.

After graduation she became serious about pursuing her musical career. During that summer after graduation she had the experience of a lifetime when she attended another Green Day concert and was chosen by lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, to play guitar for the song “Jesus of Suburbia”.
Now at age 19, she is still splitting her eight hour practice each day between and guitar and vocals, in addition to becoming a guitar teacher at the school where she began her lessons. She is now playing with some excellent musicians, Dominic Ciaccia on drums and Tim Latus on bass, in her current band and they are currently in the studio putting the finishing touches on their first EP. The music is a guitar-driven alternative rock style with message laden lyrics that come from her personal experiences or of those close to her.

Her band has been playing the local Rochester area for the past year and also played a gig in Hollywood at the famed Viper Room in October, 2010, to a very enthusiast and welcoming crowd.