Based out of Stamford, CT Suburban Chaos has emerged as a leading rock/pop/funk band playing a mix of soulful energetic music that consistently entertains and inspires. With a strong mix of blue-eyed soul, downtown funk and 70s and 80s pop. We provide a musical journey that always leaves our audience in a great place at the end of a “Chaos Evening”!
Band Members
Deb Bambera
Lead Vocals
Kevin Forsberg
Lead Guitar
Kevin has been playing and performing around the CT area for the past 25 years. Whether it has been with his original Progressive Rock acts, Arsinal, Bourne Wisdom and Scapeland Wish or the R&B funk fusion cover bands, Velvet Jones, Soul Circus and The Guards. He has always loved performing live as well as studio work. Influences include rock guitarists Robin Trower, Bill Nelson of Be-Bop Deluxe. Mark Hitt of Rat Race Choir, as well as jazz and fusion players Ray Gomez of Stanley Clarke Band, Allen Hinds, and jazz great Hank Garland. Kevin has been a member of Suburban Chaos since 2016.
Ken Kencel
Guitar & Vocals
Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Ken has been playing guitar and singing from an early age. He played guitar and sang lead vocals for such barely memorable bands as Sour Apple, Storm, Pegasus and Jade and once opened for Livingston Taylor at the Cellar Door, an iconic folk music club in Washington, D.C. He is a big fan of 70’s and 80’s rock, pop and funk music and loves to listen to live modern jazz music in his free time. He lives in Greenwich, CT and works in New York City as President and CEO of Churchill Asset Management, a leading credit asset management firm that he founded in 2006.
Patrick Sweeney
Keyboards & Vocals
Bruce Hammer
Drums & Vocals
Bruce Hammer was born and raised in White Plains, NY. He started playing drums at age 12 and by age 14 he was playing in bars and playing weddings. Bruce played in many bands through the years including local hero classic rock band Piper’s Riot, as well as Tigress and Jan Owen and the Red Letter Daze.
For the last 20 years, Bruce has played and recorded with Connecticut’s own Juicy Grapes, and has occasionally led his own R&B band, Bruce Hammer and The Red Headed Step Children of Soul, made up of some of the regions best musicians.