Wild West Fest: Hello, Dollface

30 May Wild West Fest: Hello, Dollface

Telluride’s Sheridan Arts Foundation presents its Wild West Fest Benefit Concert featuring Durango-based indie-soul power quartet Hello, Dollface. Show takes place Friday, June 5, 2015 and is free and open to the public. But a $5 donation is suggested to go toward our Wild West Fest Scholarship Fund.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the music begins at 8 p.m.

This Durango- based indie soul project is comprised of Ashley Edwards vocals, lyrics, keys, guitar; Jesse Ogle bass; Easton Stuard keys, synth, organ; and Alex Morrow drums. The band tours constantly as a power quartet kicking the sound with a gutsy, fresh, soulful, raw energy over a tight rhythm section.

Their sound could be described as a well-lit, female-fronted eclectic soul child born into a sea of evocative bass heavy, disco-plated live percussive backbeats. Notably “salty, sweet, aggressive, and visceral,” Hello, Dollface delves into a genre touring sonic scope more associated with rock idioms, while throwing back deep grooves with new school ploys that seal the energy in this group of golden soul-funkster vagabonds.

Hello, Dollface is currently working on their new studio EP “Warrior of Light” debuting summer 2015. As a teaser, the band released a five- track “Live” EP, their first collection of live recordings as a kickoff for their busy touring calendar-boasting 230 shows in 2014, celebrating new music, establishing their roots in the west coast and playing their first international shows in Canada and Mexico.

The group raised $10,000 in a 30-day Kickstarter campaign to nationally distribute their 2012 release Virtue.

Additionally Hello, Dollface loves their community and works hard to give back as much as possible. They’ve hosted and participated in numerous benefits and have raised funds for scholarships with an array of non-profits in southwest Colorado.

In 2013, the band founded iAM MUSIC, a Durango-based 501(c)(3) non-profit music education program as well as professional artist network, through which they actively teach youth and adults and aim to bridge the gaps in traditional music education, giving artists a place to express themselves.

Visit Hellodollfacemusic.com for more information on the band.

For a preview of what’s in store at the Hello, Dollface show, watch this video:

The Sheridan Arts Foundation was founded in 1991 as a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization to preserve the historic Sheridan Opera House as an arts and cultural resource for the Telluride community, to bring quality arts and cultural events to Telluride and to provide local and national youth with access and exposure to the arts through education. The Sheridan Arts Foundation is sponsored in part by grants from the Telluride Foundation, CCAASE, CCI & Just For Kids.