NEWS: The Crones would like to welcome new member Mary Plazzo on guitar.  Our dear Amy is taking some time and will be stepping back, but we adore her and wish her the best.  

     The Crones are the brainchild of frontwoman and singer/songwriter Tracey Thomas (Akronsound band Unit 5 solo for 9 albums), The Crones play energetic and exciting cover songs from your favorite female-fronted New Wave bands of the ’80s. What started as an idea during the pandemic is now fully realized and The Crones are "bringing them out in droves". 

     The band features all women, over the age of 55, playing your absolute favorite songs from your youth.  This band is for everyone, not just your old punk rock Gramma. When a band is this good, it doesn't matter if it's men, women, old, young; you need to see them.

     In a short six month period the band went from rehearsing to packing them in at local venues in the NE Ohio area. Lead singer Tracey Thomas is joined by Linda Harrison Millar (Peep, Subterraneans, Zen Love Assassins, S'not Right) on bass, Nancy Rogers Peters (Any Road, Velocity Stax) on drums, Amy Walker (Johnson Walker Blues Band) on guitar and Melissa Ulrich (reunion, Mysterious Luck) on keyboards.

     The Crones will rock your socks off, then they will make you cry with their moving rendition of Nothing Compares To You, then you will dance yet again. Make no mistake, this is not just about getting to play some music on the weekends for this group of close friends and bandmates, it's about empowering women of a certain age to come out of the shadows. 

      Come out and be a Crony, as their fans call themselves, and help redefine what it means to be an aging female in the world of music. The band is hoping to change the mind set that only male musicians can be accepted on the stage after a certain age.

     Singing the praises, quite literally, of their fellow female rockers, the band gives a nod to Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders, The Go Go's, The Bangles and many more during their impressive 90 minute concert style set - admirable and ambitious for people half their age - and they do it with ease. It's not about going to pasture anymore, it's about keeping true to form, and the original women of the Punk New Wave scene are not about to go down without a fight, at least not in Akron Ohio.