The Hollyfelds

HI! WE ARE THE HOLLYFELDS!

“Holly” rhymes with ”golly.” “Felds” rhymes with “welds.”

The Hollyfelds autobiography

Once there was a grown man who lived in a closet.

Well, it wasn’t a real closet. He only used the closet as a secret entrance to his underground lair of steam tunnels where he was able to pursue his interests in math and science with no interruption from the outside world.

And he wasn’t a real man, only a character in the 80’s teen movie “Real Genius.”

What is real is that more than 20 years after the film was released a band in Denver would name themselves after this memorable character. His name was Hollyfeld... Lazlo Hollyfeld.

Lazlo’s Denver descendants, calling themselves The Hollyfelds, departed from the musical style of the 80’s film they took their name from and instead went for a more traditional sound...a country sound...a neo-traditional country sound (tempered with a hefty dose of folk and Americana and just a touch of bluegrass, all anchored by solid pop hooks).

The Hollyfelds (henceforth referred to as “we” or “our”) started with a marriage and then moved on to other instances of destiny. How we all came together is pretty boring. Husband and wife musicians...blah blah blah...met boy and girl musicans...blah blah blah...remembered poker buddy musican...bob loblaw...band formed.

In May of 2006 we officially formed and quickly recorded our EP, File Under ‘H’ For Toy. Soon after we started playing shows around Colorado, mainly in the Denver area, but we also rocked Laporte pretty hard.

We’ve been lucky enough to play at venues such as Backyard BBQ, Private Party, The Bluebird Theater, Cricket on the Hill, the Larimer Lounge, the hi-dive, the Meadowlark Lounge, the Oriental Theatre, the D Note, Surfside 7, and Swing Station.

We have been fortunate to share the stage with many of the extremely talented people who call Colorado home, as well as a few national artists such as The Be Good Tanyas (Nettwerk Records), Bobby Bare Jr. (Bloodshot Records), Laura Gibson (Hush Records) and Panda and Angel (Jade Tree Records).

In the near future, we are excited to perform at many other venues around the country. We hope to record our debut full length in the summer of 2007, provided enough people buy T-shirts so we can pay for it.

Our main, all consuming goal at the moment is to get people to pronounce and spell our beautiful name correctly. Just remember...there is no “i” in "team" or in "Hollyfelds," but there ARE three “L’s”.

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