News – Jessica Bella Band (2024)

New music set to release on New Year’s Day 2024!

Expectation Spotify Pre-save

Time To Be Alive: Extended Edition Spotify Pre-save

Giveaways and prizes including an electric guitar for the grand prize!

This venue is 21+

Online tickets are about $14 after processing fees.

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🎸👻 Get ready to unleash your inner rockstar and embrace the spirit of Halloween like never before at Rockoween 2023!
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FOUR Explosive Bands: Brace yourself for an unforgettable night of mind-blowing music featuring Pittsburgh’s finest. With spine-tingling performances by “No Sleep For Zombies”, the sensational “Jessica Bella Band”, American rock ‘n roll from “The Redlines”, and dirty, mid-Atlantic rock from “Kruiser”, your ears are in for a treat. These musical titans are ready to rock your world!

Costumes That Rock: Come dressed to impress, because the costume contest is here, and it’s bigger and better than ever. Each band has conjured up their own category of costume creativity. Whether you’re a zombie, a beast, or something from the deepest corners of your imagination, there’s a bone-chilling prize waiting just for you.

Jessica Bella Unleashes “Expectation”: Brace yourselves for the debut of Jessica Bella’s second album, “Expectation.” This new musical odyssey is a thrilling evolution from her first album, taking you from pop symphonies to the heart-pounding rhythms of rock and roll. Witness the birth of a new character, “Jessica Bella Beast Hunter,” as Jessica takes to the stage with battling beats and beatdowns for the evil beasts lurking in the night.

Dance ’til You Drop: As usual, we’ll have you dancing, and expect surprises and delights that will keep you moving and grooving.

📅 Save the Date: Halloween Night, 2023 🌕

📍 Location: Jergel’s in Warrendale – a place where the spirits of rock and Halloween will collide in a symphony of fun!

Rockoween 2023! The most spine-tingling, hair-raising Halloween party Pittsburgh has ever seen. Get ready to rock, get ready to howl, and get ready to experience the night of your lives. Stay tuned for more spine-chilling details!
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023, 7 PM to 8 PM
at The Church Brew Works

Click here to get your free ticket

We are pleased to introduce to you a special live music event. Mega Music Monday is the perfect way to kick off the week with a rock and roll jam session featuring Jessica Bella Band, Starling My Darling, The Skiffs, and Lorelai Paige at one of Pittsburgh’s hottest new venues, The Bridge Music Bar in East Liberty located at 6018 Broad Street in Pittsburgh, PA 15206

This special event will take place on February 27th, 2023 from 7 PM to midnight. Attendees will have the opportunity to win prizes for contests such as: best dancing, best singing, best flexing, best catwalk, best guitar, best song, best antic, best dressed, and cutest couple.

Online tickets are available for $7. Tickets at the door will be available for $10, so save a little buying online in advance.

This Mega Music Monday event will also be a public celebration of Pittsburgh musicians, and we will be honoring the January 2023 MOP Top 10.

We are sure this event will be a night to remember, and we look forward to seeing you all there!

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Verse 1
It’s been awhile
Since the last time we met
You’re still the same
As far as I can remember
My heart is overflowing
I cannot believe my eyes

Chorus
You’re one in a million, I like it
You shine so bright, I like it
I like the way you call my name
I like your free spirit
I like it, everything, I like it

Verse 2
Remember me or not, I don’t care
I am just standing there
Looking at your smile
The butterflies in my stomach
You change it, it’s ready to fly
Baby, you know how to talk
Baby, you know how to smile
You’re tearing down my ego

Bridge
This time I will not let go (never let go)
I hold my breath to say
This time I will not run away
I’ve been waiting for this moment

I saw this meme a while back, and while funny, there is also a lot of truth to this for a musician starting out, and even musicians with decades of experience performing gigs still operate like this. We know hundreds of local musicians, and I don’t know a single musician in Pittsburgh that can pay their bills with music alone; that’s what they all want (to pay the bills with music), but it simply isn’t happening. The old expression “starving artist” is used so frequently, because the situation is so common. It’s fun and exciting to play music, and tons of people want to do it, and they dream about being rich and famous, but huge success is usually impossible without huge sacrifice, and every small business must suffer through the “starving season” before the harvest comes. When I worked at Google, my coworker told me he thought about opening a pizza shop, and he got advice from a friend that owned a restaurant. The friend said, “Do not start a business unless you are comfortable making no money for at least 3 years and you have $300,000 to invest.” Every situation is different, and there are always exceptions to the norm, but as far as I can tell, every kind of startup business (and a new, working musician is a startup business) is going to struggle and sacrifice simply to survive and then struggle and sacrifice so much more if it wants any chance at being successful.

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We had a great meeting with MOPCON leadership and Chris at Tube City regarding MOPCON.

We’re excited for this week’s events including
Tremendous Thursday and THE FORGE GOT TALENT!

Written by Ruby Craft

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Jessica Bella Blog

May 7, 2022 at Tube City Brew Works

Venue48 located at 623 Long Run Road in McKeesport

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When you’re at Tube City Brew Works the food is awesome and the customer service is top notch with Server Nikki and the Bar Manager Chris. You can’t miss the Kaiju Monsters mural that goes the whole length of the wall.

Jessica Bella Band

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The band set up to rock with Jessica Bella on vocals, Chris Volpini on Bass, Alex Wisniewski, and Ben Osmund on percussion. First banger was the sweet hit “River” featuring her mother tongue of Indonesian Bahasa. The crowd really appreciated Alex Wisniewski’s sweet guitar solos.

Moonshine Jasmine singing at Tube City Brew Works

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The night continued and soon it was time for the guest band Moonshine Jasmine. Megan Pennington and Tyler Cannon graced us with their hits like “Nowhere Ohio” and “Millvale Blues.” You can find Moonshine Jasmine on the Music of Pittsburgh Playlist on Spotify and as Moonshine Jasmine on Facebook. It’s a little country and a little rock and a lot of awesome.

It was a great time in the last hour of the Jessica Bella Band performance. A great reprise of her great hits like “I like it” and a funky version of “Time to Be Alive” had the crowd singing along. You can see some of the action on HERE

A huge thank you to Tube City Brew Works for having Jessica Bella Band. They are returning June 11th at 8pm for another rocking performance!

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