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09/12/2019 12:01 AMThe Branford Folk Music Society will open its 46th year of presenting coffeehouse concerts on Saturday, Sept. 14, presenting the Vox Hunters, a young duo of traditional singers and multi-instrumentalists from Rhode Island who have generated a great deal of buzz in the traditional folk music community with their fresh approach to the music.
The concert will take place at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of the First Congregational Church on the Branford Green. Admission for the concert is $20 for non-members of the society, $17 for members and $5 for children 12 years and younger. For more information, call 203-488-7715 or visit branfordfolk.org.
The Vox Hunters—Armand Aromin and Benedict Gagliardi—have researched and tweaked and injected new life into old material as well as writing tunes and songs of their own in the folk idiom.
They are seekers and singers of old songs and cultivators of the music of New England, accompanying their singing with a variety of instruments including fiddle, guitar, concertina, melodeon, harmonica and percussive step dancing.
Their three mantras are “Sing Local,” “Sing Often,” and “Roger Williams for President.” They practice what they preach. They perform local in Rhode Island at pub sings, Irish and old-time sessions, and at coffeehouses. They sing often throughout the Northeast at gatherings such as the annual Mystic Sea Music Festival, the Old Songs Festival in New York State, the Portsmouth Maritime Festival and the TradMad fall gathering in Massachusetts. As for their third mantra, audiences will have to wait and see what 2020 brings.