Permilla

sunday, october 6th

henley Stage: 3:15 - 4:00pm

In the sunsetting months of 2023, Nicole Cerminara, her brother Joseph “Junior” Cerminara, and their adopted brother Myles Rogers, (FKA JIN THE BAND), fatefully met in a greasy Toronto diner with legendary producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, KISS, Phish). Even if they weren’t aware of it yet, the group that had entered that diner, already a powerhouse in the Niagara / Toronto gigging music scene, left as a band with a new found life.

The songwriting team of Cerminara and Rogers took a new face, focused on their combined love of Americana and British Invasion style melodies. It ignited a stint of colourful, harmonic, sticky songwriting - reminiscent of the female-fronted power of Janis Joplin and Fleetwood Mac, other times the genre-bending acrobatics of Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones.

The live show is a ruthless war machine, with Nicole leading the charge and Rogers and Cerminara fully committed to the battle alongside her, all three dictating and adapting to the changes on-stage, steering the machine with telekinetic instinct and harmony, the type of thing only forged through the timeless crucible of countless three-set cover gigs and dues paid during years of on-stage experience together.

With a new moniker, named ‘Permilla’ after their songwriting house, and the ultimate resource, a fully functional analog studio wielded by Myles and his father, ‘Permilla’ have begun a lightning paced record-and-release schedule in 2024.

“Nicole Cerminara’s reputation often precedes her: a well known social media purveyor of modern funk & blues, it would be easy for her to hang her hat solely on her well established virtuosity. But the alchemy of the connection she shares with both Rogers and Cerminara senior results in an energetic experience that no other band in their right mind would ever want to follow.”

For fans of: Jimi Hendrix, 1960’s pop, Terra Lightfoot

- Cicada Artistic Direction Team