Club 321 featuring Organ Fairchild

Jam scene mainstays Joe Bellanti, Corey Kertzie and Dave Ruch met in 1983 as members of Buffalo NY Grateful Dead cover band “Wild Knights,” a group that still plays reunion shows to this day.

But it wasn’t until early 2020 that they wrote their first original music together, this time as three-piece instrumental organ trio/funky jam band Organ Fairchild.

The debut gig was just a month before COVID shutdowns, but the horse was out of the barn and the response was immediate!

Highlights of the band’s short life to date include:

• Featured on Spotify’s “Instrumental Funk” editorial playlist

• Main stage appearance at Borderland Festival, NY (7,000 attendance)

• Two sold out shows at Babeville’s Ninth Ward – Buffalo Jan 2023

• Tedeschi Trucks Band members sit-in March 2023

• Festivals and shows with Goose, Trey Anastasio Band, Umphrey’s McGee, moe., Melvin Seals and JGB, Anders Osborne and Jackie Greene, Andy Frasco & the U.N., Sophistafunk, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Sam Grisman Project, Dogs in a Pile and many more

• Voted NY’s top emerging band (out of 64 groups) in 2021

• Video greeting to the band from actress Morgan Fairchild

• Jambands.com Radio Charts Top 30 List

• Show history in NY, CT, VT, MA, NJ, PA, OH, DC, MD, DE, IL, IN, IA, Ontario