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Firm favourites on the Whangateau Folk Club calendar Albi & The Wolves will return to the Whangateau Hall on October 29.
Pascal Roggen on fiddle, Chris Dent on guitar and Michael Young on double bass draw from a wide range of music genres, from swing and bluegrass to soul, R&B and rock.
The concert, along with another at the Otamatea Repertory Theatre, Maungaturoto on November 3, are part of the nationwide It Ain’t Easy tour.
It has been a mammoth 12 months for the Auckland-based group, which got together in 2014. They were the winners of the Best Folk Album for their debut album, Eyes Wide Open, at last year’s Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards and recently completed The Great New Zealand Folk Tour, alongside the Frank Burkitt Band and Taranaki favourites, The Slacks.
Band member Chris Dent says the band loves touring New Zealand.
“Through playing music you really see the country in a truly unique way as people open up to you,” he says. “Music is about communication and when we play we get to do our thing, afterwards people get to do theirs and it’s those moments that are really special.”
After NZ, the band will head for a tour of Australia.
“We are also recording at the moment and on October 5 we are dropping a brand new single called It
Ain’t Easy. This tune is the first of the recordings that we have completed. It’s a bit of a new direction for us, but we hope our audience will like it as much as we do.”
Local entertainer Molly Curnow will open for Albi & The Wolves at the Maungaturoto show.
