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Three musical siblings – Ian, Eric and Brittany Hölljes – started collaborating with longtime family friend Elizabeth Hopkins several years ago, and grew into the current Delta Rae line-up in 2010 with the addition of drummer/percussionist Mike McKee and bassist Grant Emerson. The brothers play guitars and keys, Brittany delivers big velvety lead vocals and pretty support to Hopkins’ raspier piping call or Ian’s straightforward tenor, and all four voices come together in harmonic stretches of soulful beauty. In 2012, the Durham, N.C. sextet was signed to Sire Records by iconic A&R rep Seymour Stein (who originally launched the careers of Talking Heads and Madonna among many others), and full-length debut Carry the Fire was issued last summer. The 12-song set is modern Americana studded with elements of blues, pop and gospel, their sound alternately dark and haunting or bright and hopeful, from the Southern gothic appeal of "Bottom of the River” with its chain-gang stomp and gospel choir intones, to the soaring bittersweet melodies about leaving a lover behind in “Holding on to Good,” to the urgent pulsing drive of “Is There Anyone Out There,” which finds Ian howling about feelings of disillusionment: “My body doesn’t fit me, my dreams are like great ships lost at sea / and this heart grows tired, so far from where I started, so far from where I want to be.”
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Capitol Theatre
- Downtown Clearwater 405 Cleveland St.
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