Friday Night Folk is pleased to welcome The Royal Boys, aka The Vox Hunters and Craig Edwards, for our March 16 concert.

The Royal Boys will join to share their love for traditional Irish music as well as an eclectic amalgam of songs.

Armand Aromin and Benedict Gagliardi, the Vox Hunters, are seekers and singers of old songs, tireless multi-instrumentalists, and a driving force of traditional folk music in Rhode Island. They are known to instigate singing and music-making at any opportunity and they delight in the community that forms around local music events. With harmonizing voices accompanied by fiddle, free-reeds, and tenor guitar, Armand and Ben present an eclectic repertoire of traditional folk songs, driving dance tunes, percussive footwork and other musical varia.

Joining them is Craig Edwards. Craig performs a range of music, from blues, Cajun, Cape Breton, Irish, and Swing on his fiddle or banjo, to flatpicking and fingerstyle guitar the blues. Playing with the drive and conviction that characterize these musical traditions, Craig was named a Connecticut Master Teaching Artist by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and has won numerous fiddle and banjo contests. He tours with several bands in addition to performing solo and teaching.

The Vox Hunters explain what they do: “We don’t aim to fuse genres, push boundaries, or redefine ‘folk music’ — we simply sing songs we like exactly the way we like to sing them.

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