In the business for over 40 years. As a duo, playing cover tunes from Classic Rock to 90’s alternative.

Partial Song list:

Green River - CCR
Bad Moon Rising - CCR
All Shook Up - Elvis
Blood and Roses - Smithereens
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison 
Brown Eyed Girl -  Van Morrison 
Spooky - Atlanta Rhythm Section
Fields of Gold - Sting
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles 
Melissa - The Allman Brothers 
Take it Easy - The Eagles

Estella's sultry vocals, vulnerable lyrics, and hypnotic production are an intimate experience. With her clear high range and plaintive mid range, her voice has notes of both Minnie Riperton and Hope Sandoval. Influences include Thom Yorke, Imogen Heap, Björk, Natalia Lafourcade, Andrew Huang, and Milck.

Alternative Americana Country Rock Ska Rythym & Blues Old School everything music, often featuring lap steel guitar so it refers to old-school country, ukulele so it sounds plucky and old-timey, fleet-fingered electric guitar that smokes like the best of classic rock, multiple voices with a varied sound.

lineup: 
Jim Bouchard; ukulele, guitars and vocals - grew up listening to The Beach Boys and Beatles as played by his older brothers, Albert and Joe, who went on to found The Blue Oyster Cult. Played banjo and guitar on the folk scene in Boston in the ‘90s, in various incarnations, solo and as part of seminal Americana collaborative Toots Rambles; recent convert to the ukulele and despite its connotations as the chosen instrument of Tiny Tim, Jim tries to push it into more of a rock realm.

Peter D’Angelo; drums and percussion - played in Punk Alt-Country band Big Barn Burning throughout the late ‘80s, most recently found playing with classic power rock band Green Street Station and now also The Beauty Way. 

Cate O’Connell; lap steel and electric and acoustic guitars and vocals - our lap steel virtuoso played in bands with Matt Nathanson in high school and went on to discover the lap steel; studied with David Lindley, she has a great appreciation for classic rock especially Jackson Browne. 

Severin Grossman; bass - longtime mainstay of the legendary Boston garage-rock institution, Willie Alexander and Boom Boom Band, Sev was lured out of musical retirement by the rootsy feel of the band to fill the essential bottom line of the band, locking in perfectly with Peter to create the pulse of TBW. 

Why the name “The Beauty Way”?: It’s a song we like to play by Eliza Gilkyson, but also there’s also the meaning that comes from the Navajo culture about living the right way, however vague that sounds, its expression is in such concepts as beauty, perfection, harmony, goodness, normality, success, well-being, blessedness, and happiness. Sort of like the Buddhist idea of The Middle Way, treading lightly on this earth with compassion to all. And we’d like to do something that has a bit of beauty in it, so there you have it...

Guitars and synths making noises here.



primarily guitar player for a long time, other string operated stuff picked up on occasion, including bass, banjo, mandolin and charango. Keyboards plunked on at times. Buttons pushed, recordings made, ears ringing and judgment called into question but still I carry on...

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