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Young Age, Old Souls: Hunter Wolfe & ARE

All Age Talent at Wednesday Night's Blues Society Showcase

This coming Wednesday night, as every first Wednesday night of the month, The Fredericksburg Blues Society brings a unique and original, young, and exceptionally talented act from Orange County. Hunter Wolfe & ARE will headline this month’s Blues Society Showcase, 7 p.m. at Shannon’s Bar & Grille in Central Park. The lovely Ms. LeeTee will join them for a tune as well. The Fredericksburg Blues Society Boys (FBS Boys) will play, too.

Hunter Wolfe & ARE is a dynamite and percussive blues duo, with a flare all their own. Hunter, 19, plays a mean slide guitar. He won the 2008 National Slide Guitar Championship at the National Slide Guitar Festival in Brevard, NC at age 16. ARE (Anna Rose Elizabeth), age 14, plays drums. The two are reminiscent of The White Stripes and Deadboy & The Elephantmen (fronted by former Acid Bath singer, Dax Riggs). All of these groups have female drummers, and ARE definitely holds her own-very stylishly, too.

The two have performed all over the country, and across the big blue pond, in London. Hunter Wolfe has performed with rebel blues lady, Candye Kane (you have seen her in Fredericksburg), and at Blues Alley with Delta Blues legend David “Honeyboy” Edwards, writer of Gambling Man. Hunter Wolfe & ARE recently opened for Devon Allman’s Honeytribe at The Olde Silk Mill in downtown Fredericksburg in July.

Hunter Wolfe & ARE debut album, The Go, was produced and recorded at Small World Audio studio by Bobby Read, horn player for Bruce Hornsby Band. The album features rockin’ blues lady Cassie Taylor (Otis Taylor’s daughter), and Jackie Scott (Blues Blast Award winner). The album is all original, paying tribute to classic blues, and bringing in the fresh of the up and coming blues generation. There is something for every generation on this album (to be released later this summer). Hunter Wolfe & ARE’s first EP-CD, Traces & Chains, was co-produced by Dale Russell, guitarist and producer of The Guess Who. Check out some recorded tracks at www.HunterWolfe.com.

The Fredericksburg Blues Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping the blues alive, was founded by Mr. Sonny Bell and Dr. Neil Tibert (of the Shack Shakers). Sonny sings and drums, and Dr. T plays a smoking hot blues guitar.  They also comprise their own society blues group, The Fredericksburg Blues Society Boys (FBS Boys), who will play at the Showcase as well. Other blues artists are welcome to contact Sonny Bell with the Blues Society to get on a list to perform. You can find out more about the Fredericksburg Blues Society at www.FredBlues.org. You can also find them on Facebook. A huge thanks to Capital Entertainment for their booking services offered to the Fredericksburg Blues Society and Fredericksburg Live for their coverage of Blues Society events.


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