The Wandering Hearts to officially kick off the Country To Country Festival 2018 (C2C2018) Blurb: To paint a picture of The Wandering Hearts, Tara (Tara Wilcox), Chess (Francesca Whiffin), AJ (Alexander John Dean-Revington) and Tim (Timothy Prottey-Jones); Folk Americana vocal harmony group) one would need to find their most blood red hard-earned brush. An Americana / Country music group from London that came together almost in defiance of the current zeitgest of rhinestone hats and Fender guitar UK country-rock that has jumped onto the proverbial bandwagon in the last two years. The Wandering Hearts said: “Tara and Tim met at a gig and were introduced soon after to AJ and Chess through mutual friends. Something between us all just clicked – we felt we had stumbled onto something special. We started writing together as a band and quickly developed The Wandering Hearts sound: a truthful lyric and lots of harmonies.” Originally christening themselves the Paper Hearts, they recorded two demo songs, "Today Is Ours" and "Sunshine," which they uploaded to SoundCloud, leading to a flurry of immediate interest. Within a month, they had been invited to audition for Decca at a London showcase, who signed them on the spot. Rebranded the Wandering Hearts, probably to avoid confusion with any of numerous other acts with the same name, they played a number of high-profile festival shows in 2016, and released their debut single, the bittersweet "Wish I Could," on May 5, 2017. The track has had over 500,000 streams on Spotify and they are currently logging 105,000 monthly listeners. BLOG FEATURE: The Wandering Hearts: Interviews, Artist Spotlight & Background They played the Country To Country C2C 2017 Festival, their Saturday 10am slot at the C2C Fans Lounge was scrapped but they later played The Roadhouse Building Six (13:05-13:35) and also performed The Big Entrance Stage on Sunday March 12, 2017 (11:25-11:55). Their first London show at St. Pancras Old Church (26th April 2017) was a sell-out, and the single was championed by Michael Ball and his team at BBC Radio 2. Then on August 19th BBC Radio 2 “B” playlisted their brilliant catchy follow-up single "Devil". Published on Aug 17, 2017 watch the Official Video for Devil (138K views). Last October they supported C2C2017 main stage act Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives. They were the featured cover artist for the August/September 2007 issue of Maverick Magazine and made the 2018 HOTLIST in Country Music magazine (issue 8) Fresh from hearing they have been honoured winning The Bob Harris Emerging Artist Award (presented at The UK Americana Awards in Feb 2018 | SEE BLOG) in somewhat of a quiet release they surprised fans with a 4-track EP BURNING BRIDGES with the title cut and an additional three acoustic tracks produced by Ant Whiting. BLOG feature The Wandering Hearts share debut EP ‘Burning Bridges’ (Review) The Wandering Hearts released their debut album WILD SILENCE, out on Decca Records on 9 February 2018. It has debuted at No.1 on the Official UK Country Album Top 20 and No.4 on Official Americana Albums Chart Top 40 (chart week 16 Feb 2018 - 22 February 2018)
UK Tour Dates Sun 18 February 2018 (Louisana, Bristol), Mon 19 Feb (The Portland Arms, Cambridge), Weds 21 Feb (The Hare And Hounds, Birmingham), Thurs 22 Feb 2018 (Gullivers, Manchester), Thurs 1 March 2018 (Bush Hall, London support Jarrod Dickerson): Tickets available from Ticketmaster UK
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