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Tour Dates
July 2 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
Jul 11 Galena, IL Galena Festival Jul 17 Mechanicsville, VA Pole Green Park July 20 Denver, CO Lost Lake July 21 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court July 23 Seattle, WA The Crocodile July 24 Portland, OR Doug Fir July 25 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill July 28 Los Angeles, CA The Mint July 29 San Diego, CA Voodoo Room Aug 20 Selbyville, DE Freeman Stage Read More
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The Hunts is a musical family, consisting of five brothers (Josh, Jonathan, Jordan, Justin, and Jamison), and twin sisters (Jenni and Jessi). As you can see and hear, they've been performing music their entire lives. After years of covering and writing original songs, they've signed a deal with Cherrytree Records/Interscope in December 2014, with their version of "O Holy Night".
The Hunts recently stopped by the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis last night (June 29th). Opening up for them was San Francisco's Panic Is Perfect, touring in support of their Behind Your Eyelids EP, out now on Strange Loop Music Inc.
Since The Hunts has only release one album, Those Younger Days, they basically played the entire album live.
"Illuminate", "Just For A While", "Remember Us", "Lifting the Sea", "Douse the Flame", "This Is Love": all had great harmonies that can only be produced with siblings who grew up with each other all their lives. Instruments were traditional folk music like mandolin, fiddle, acoustic guitar, banjo, percussions (even turning a chair into an instrument), but sometime with ukulele (for "Next To Me") or accordion (with a new song 'Life Has Only Begun'?).
Highlight of their show was the closing part of their set, a blockbuster of singles "Make This Leap" and "Ages" (the song where their album title came from), followed by the double song encore of two covers, Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues.
With the diehard fans in the audience, including one of their biggest fan all the way from Virginia, the young band is still building an audience simply by word of mouth. When they come back, I'm pretty sure they will be playing to a much bigger audience.
The Hunts' Those Younger Days debut album is available now on Cherrytree Records/Interscope.
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Panic Is Perfect: Behind Your Eyelids (EP)
Strange Loop Music
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Since The Hunts has only release one album, Those Younger Days, they basically played the entire album live.
"Illuminate", "Just For A While", "Remember Us", "Lifting the Sea", "Douse the Flame", "This Is Love": all had great harmonies that can only be produced with siblings who grew up with each other all their lives. Instruments were traditional folk music like mandolin, fiddle, acoustic guitar, banjo, percussions (even turning a chair into an instrument), but sometime with ukulele (for "Next To Me") or accordion (with a new song 'Life Has Only Begun'?).
Highlight of their show was the closing part of their set, a blockbuster of singles "Make This Leap" and "Ages" (the song where their album title came from), followed by the double song encore of two covers, Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues.
With the diehard fans in the audience, including one of their biggest fan all the way from Virginia, the young band is still building an audience simply by word of mouth. When they come back, I'm pretty sure they will be playing to a much bigger audience.
The Hunts' Those Younger Days debut album is available now on Cherrytree Records/Interscope.
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The Hunts at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (29 June 2015) photo courtesy of Jayme Halbritter, jaymehalbritter.com
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