Meet the Band

Celia’s love for music and performing began the moment she first heard Judy Garland sing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. Her love of music was fostered by her parents who would play everything from Queen to John Denver and everything in between. She grew up performing in musicals and began her career in Musical Theater when she attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy of NYC. In 2002, she joined a Raleigh area live music band scene and hasn’t looked back since. She’s thrilled to be back behind the mic and working with the incredibly talented musicians that make up Infinity’s End.

Dave is a guitarist/musician, who has been playing in rock bands, acoustic acts, and fireside jams his whole life. Dave “grew up” on the South shore of Mass between Boston and Cape Cod. He was always into music and the arts. He played violin throughout grade school in orchestras. He was in high school musicals and Chorus. Picked up the guitar in Junior High and started playing bands in High school with his buddies. Dave has a wide range of influences from classical, jazz, blues, 70s, 80s, and 90s rock, and a little country. His blues-rock guitar style was formed by listening to bands like his favs Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Steely Dan, Van Halen, SRV, and Black Sabbath. Southern Rock was popular up north and everyone was listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchett, and the Allman Brothers.

Dave performed in The Hear and Now, Critical Mass, and Cage original and cover bands.  He enjoyed local success with Venomiss Toad for many years and then started the Sonic Jones Project, which unfortunately COVID derailed. Now Dave is excited for the next musical adventure with Infinity’s End!

Tim was fortunate to grow up in a musical household and started playing the piano and trumpet at an early age. He continued his musical education by playing several brass instruments in the orchestra and marching band. Intoxicated by the halcyon daze of the late 60s and 70s rock and roll, he started learning how to play the bass guitar in his early teens. His inspirations on bass are Chris Squire, Paul McCartney, John Entwistle, Phil Lesh, Roger Glover, and Dusty Hill. Soon thereafter, he joined several garage and “party” bands. After finishing college he played in a series of popular classic rock cover bands with some phenomenal musicians who are still his friends today; playing well over 100 gigs from dive bars to large festivals in East Tennessee. Tim has said on numerous occasions that “…there is absolutely nothing more electric than when a song clicks, being in the pocket, as the adrenaline flows with your bandmates. And to have an opportunity to share that with an audience is simply amazing”.

Doug Stanton is a native of South Carolina and moved to the Raleigh, NC area in 2005.  His love of music was influenced by his younger years with formal lessons in piano, self-taught on the guitar, as well as multiple lead roles in community theater (Annie Get Your Gun, Pippin, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Grease and Kiss Me, Kate), vocal music ensembles while a student at Clemson University as well as musician and worship leader for churches while in South Carolina and in the Raleigh area.  Doug’s style has been influenced by a wide array of known keyboard artists/musicians such as Bill Champlin (Sons of Champlin / Chicago), Jonathan Cain (Journey), Dennis DeYoung (Styx), Tony Banks (Genesis), Bruce Hornsby, Elton John, Michael McDonald, Michael W Smith, Eddie Van Halen, and others.  His love and appreciation for music are stated well in a quote from a 2009 interview between music journalist Steve Baltin and Eddie Van Halen.  When asked about being called the modern-day Hendrix as far as influence, in his response Eddie quoted: “It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the man upstairs gave me something and it touches people and I’m so blessed.” 

Lyle started playing the drums at eight years old, so he’s almost got it down. Seriously, he almost really does. Lyle was born in West Virginia but grew up in the Baltimore/Washington DC suburbs. He relocated to Raleigh in 1996. Immediately after that, he began to look for gigging bands in the area meeting many talented groups, yet was typically never included in any of them. That changed a few years ago with time spent proudly performing with bands such as Moon Pi, Stoneage Romeos, Cage, and Major Vice. Keeping his ‘talents’ sharp between these endeavors, he played brief stints with some of the Triangle’s other groups. His favorite songs are from the 70’s/80’s classic and radio rock selections however playing some of these in a live show accurately on the drums has continually proved elusive for him. Lyle prefers to add his authentic style to songs, making them his own. Early influences include The Banana Splits, Josie and the Pussycats, The Archie’s, and The Partridge Family. His triumphant breakthrough has now occurred, as a member of Infinity’s End.