THE

LUMINEERS

IN 2002, BEST FRIEND AND BROTHER JOSH FRAITES PASSED AWAY ROM A DRUG
OVERDOSE AT AGE 19.
WESLEY SHULTZ WAS HIS BEST FRIEND
JEREMIAH FRAITES WAS HIS YOUNGER BROTHER
THEY FOUND SOLACE THROUGH MUSIC, AND PLAYED TOGETHER AS A WAY TO MOURN
PERFORMED IN JERSEY & NEW YORK FOR A FEW YEARS THEN MOVED TO DENVER
ONCE IN DENVER THEY PLACED A CRAIGSLIST ADD FOR A CLASSICAL CELLIST
NEYLA PEKAREK RESPONDED AND BECAME THE 3RD MEMBER OF THE BAND IN 2010
BECAME POPULAR BY SONG HO HEY

American Folk Rock

HO-HEY

ARTIST TRIO
Wesley Schultz (vocals, guitar)
MIDDLE

Jeremiah Fraites (drums, piano)

RIGHT

Neyla Pekarak (vocals, cello)

LEFT

WESLEY KEITH SHULTZ

Age 33
Ramsey, New Jersey
Lead Vocalist
Guitar, Piano, Ukulele, Drums
Theres enough generic stuff out

there full of recycled words that

dont really mean anything. There
have to be other stories to tell, and
other ways to tell them. Wesley
Shultz

JEREMIAH
FRAITES

Age 33

Ramsey, New Jersey

Back-up Vocalist, Drums,

Ukulele, Piano

People come up with a single

and they just want to release
that to get their payday and a
quick fix. But we wanted to
make an album, something
cohesive. Where you can just
listen to the whole thing.
-Jeremiah Fraites

NEYLA PEKAREK
Age 29
Denver, Colorado
Cellist, Back-Up Vocalist
We live in a world that is so

technology-driven, and I think

people are looking for a break
from that in many aspects. I think
the music industry was really
ready for this folky acoustic
sound and young people are
often very impressed that we do
indeed write our own songs and
play our own instruments. Neyla

OPHELIA

INFLUENCES
Neyla=Emmylou Harris,
Aretha Franklin
Jeremiah=Rolling Stones,
Tom Petty
Wesley=Ryan Adams, Bob
Dylan

SUCCESS
Ho-Hey Stayed on hot 100s top ten for 14 weeks (BILLBOARD CHARTS)

First album reached #2 on hot 200 albums (BILLBOARD CHARTS)

Played at Grammys

Ho-Hey went double platinum

SLEEP ON THE FLOOR

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TheLumineers. "The Lumineers - Ho Hey (Official Video)." YouTube. YouTube,

11 Mar. 2012. Web. 28 Apr. 2016.

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