Rachel Flotard - Seattle's Band Visqueen

 

Visqueen’s new album, “Message to Garcia,” is as much about joy and inspiration and soaring over life’s hurtles as it is about sadness and grief.

The beloved Seattle pop-rock band is led by singer-guitarist Rachel Flotard, who lost her father last April after a long bout with cancer. George Flotard had been a New York City steamfitter since the mid-’60s. It was dirty, back-wrenching work. “He fought and loved in Hell’s Kitchen bars on the West Side, and broke all 10 fingers twice,” says his daughter.