Lead Vocals/Guitar - Aaron Bagchee
Bass - Nick Sanginario
Drums - Darren "Chip" Walker
Harmonica/Back Vocals - Russ Van Scoy


A deep southern voice and steely guitars with a funkabilly swing...The Breakfast Show serves up a menu of blended musical styles sure to appeal to just about every musical taste.  Their rootsy style is infectious and rythmic grooves just make you want to get up and dance.

The Breakfast Show band started in 2009 by Aaron Bagchee and is based in the Santa Cruz, California area.  Aaron Bagchee released a solo album in 2009 with the intent of forming a band called the Breakfast Show.  Shortly after the album "Now Appearing at The Breakfast Show" was released the band was formed. 

The band plays a wide variety of originals and covers but their music can be best described as The Rolling Stones, Meet Johnny Cash, with a little Lenny Kravitz sprinkled in.  Their music is rooted in the blues and rockabilly with funk and rock influences.

Meet the Band
 

Aaron Bagchee
Aaron Bagchee is the lead singer and guitarist for The Breakfast Show and is based in Watsonville, California.  He has been seriously playing guitar for almost 20 years and currently also plays in the Michael Gaither Band.  He has recently released his first official record named "Now Appearing at the Breakfast Show".  His debut album is a collection of songs written over a 20 year timespan.  Aaron has always written songs but only now has gotten around to recording and releasing them.

Aaron belongs to a musical family.  All of his brothers and sisters(Dipendra, Kiren, and Anita) either sing or play an instrument.  His father, Sam, is Bengali who are known in India to have artistic talent.  That is the only way they can explain it as neither parent displayed any musical talent.  Perhaps the music was always in the blood and just needed the right environment to blossom.

Aaron first took guitar lessons at age 12 but quickly got bored after a few weeks playing melodic pop tunes like Jingle Bells.  He wanted to play Rolling Stones songs but his guitar teacher didn't know any.  He gave up guitar for the next 7 years.

Aaron's singing talent was first discovered as a senior in high school during a class trip to Great America amusement park.  He recorded a version of "Beast of Burden" at one of those make your own music karaoke booths.  Aaron's rendition was so good that his history teacher incorporated the song into a final test question and asked the class to name the group who originally sang this song while playing Aaron's recording.

After high school, Aaron, eventually started to fiddle with the guitar while listening to Chuck Berry records.  Once he figured out how to play that Chuck Berry signature opening riff he was on his way.  In college in the early 90's he was the singer and guitarist for the band Rosemary out of Hayward, Ca.  That didn't last very long as Aaron was rooted in the blues and traditional american music and at the time heavy metal was still the rage.  A few songs  (Stone Cold Stare, Mousetrap, Fish In The Sea) on the debut cd were written during that period.

Aaron continued to play guitar on his own getting more into traditional blues, country and rockabilly records.  Aaron used to overhear his childhood friend's father, Andy Gallagher, playing old country, blues and rockabilly records and fell in love with the sound from those vinyl recordings.  It is this sound that most influences his music today though you will often hear the edginess of rock and alternative.  It is the blend of old and new that makes the music stand out.

Only within the last 4 years has Aaron gotten deeper into performing live and playing with other musicians.  Aaron will play with anyone regardless of whether he knows them or not and relishes the opportunity to improvise.

Nick Sanginario

Nick Sanginario plays bass and is the youngest member of the band.  He also plays in the band SqeezeDaddy that play New Orleans style RnB.  Nick draws from a wide variety of influences including zydeco, RnB, blues and jazz stylings.

















Darren Walker

Darren "Chip" Walker plays the drums for the Breakfast Show.  Darren has been playing drums in bands for more than 20 years in the bay area and has professional recording experience.  Darren draws influences from RnB, Funk and Jazz stylings.  He is still getting used to this rockabilly thing.  Darren also has a famous singer daughter, Tara Walker, who recently appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show singing contest. 

Russell Van Scoy
Russ plays the mississippi saxaphone and has been playing with Aaron Bagchee for about 5 years.  Russ has been playing for about 10 years and used to play in the band Engine Room based in San Jose.  Russ played saxaphone in High School but never played an instrument until about 20 years later.  Russ is a certified blues maestro but can also play a melodic harp.