Blue Dahlia

A goth-tinged, dream-pop-style music group with medieval and cultural touches ? la Deceased May Dance, Blue Dahlia produced in Kalamazoo, MI, in 1995, when three associates of an area goth/darkwave music group — Derek Menchinger (electric guitar), Karla Wescott, and Michelle Graf — made a decision to go on a brand-new project. They installed with drummer/percussionist Carolyn Koebel and started writing materials; their eponymous debut Compact disc premiered in 1997 on the tiny California indie label Saint Thomas. Vocalist Leslie Boughton changed Wescott in 1998, as well as the group added the Boughton-penned one “Bridge the River Seoul” towards the DivaNation compilation Cicatrix: The Ritual Skin damage. Bassist Becky Pingston joined up with the group in middle-1999, and extra vocalist Amy Kozak also became a member of in early 2000, where period Graf was eliminated. The four-song EP Estival premiered in summer season 2000, featuring tunes and recordings both older and fresh (every past and present person in the band made an appearance on at least one monitor). In 2001, the group was chosen like a finalist in the Coke-sponsored SONGS Awards competition for unsigned rings, and in addition released the brand new full-length recording Live in the Vickers’ Theatre.