FRIDAY 26 JULY 2024
General Admission
Tickets $43
Members Price $40
18+Doors 7.30pm
Show 8.00pm

Featuring Guest Act Max Jackson

It has been an amazing 13 year ride for The Wolfe Brothers so far. They first found fame performing throughout the entire series of the prime time television show Australia’s Got Talent in 2012. Each week they captured the attention of the nation with their high energy performances of their own songs, and each week Australia was voting in bigger numbers for The Wolfe Brothers. After placing second in the shows Grand Final they were signed to Stephen White Management and joined an impressive stable of artists that today includes Lee Kernaghan, Max Jackson and Canadian star Gord Bamford. A recording contract with ABC Music followed and this again put the band into another stable that also featured Lee Kernaghan. After viewing the band’s performances on Australia’s Got Talent and auditioning them in a studio in Sydney Lee hired The Wolfe Brothers to open all of his shows and also to play in his band, a working relationship that lasted 10 years. After what the brothers describe as the best possible apprenticeship any band could have and after the years of learning so much from Lee The Wolfe Brothers have achieved over their career four #1 and two #2 ARIA Country Albums that have delivered 19 #1 singles on the National Country Music Chart. With nine Golden Guitars under their belt and 4 ARIA nominations they are now Australia’s most awarded country rock duo in history.

Nick and Tom Wolfe come from a line of berry farmers and musicians. For over 120 years the farm in Neika Tasmania has been run by the Wolfe Family. Wolfe’s Berry Farm has been passed down through the generations and after the loss of both their parents in recent years Nick and Tom have made sure that the farm remains under the Wolfe name with Tom and his wife Aly, along with their 2 young daughters Evie and Tilly, carrying on the tradition in Southern Tasmania with the girls becoming the 5th generation to be raised on the farm while Nick and his wife Tani have taken on their own Wolfe farm to the north of the state, near Launceston.

Music has been a constant in the farm houses and pickers sheds of Wolfe’s Berry Farm. For Tom and Nick playing music is not so much a choice as a tradition. The pair represents the fourth generation of Wolfes to grow up on the family farm in Neika, southwest of Hobart, and the third generation to play in a band. “Our grandfather formed the Wolfe Family Orchestra – which included our grandmother, and our dad joined when he was 12 years old,” explains Tom. “Then my dad had his own band, called Midnight Revival – and my brother Nick joined that when he was about 13. Music has always been part of my memories. I just fell in love with it as a child – we all just love it, the whole family. I remember Nick and I would be working on the farm after school and then we’d get in the car with dad and go to his sound-check. We’d help with the sound-check and then, if we’d been good, we could play on stage for five minutes afterwards.”

However, the biggest early influence wasn’t their father or grandfather, it was their mother. “Mum was probably a bigger influence than anyone,” says Tom. “She doesn’t play an instrument, but she always had music on around the house, all the time. The house was filled with the sounds of Lee Kernaghan and John Farnham – both still really big favourites of ours.”

The brothers from Tasmania have travelled countless road miles in Australia, USA and Canada. 2023 saw The Wolfe Brothers take their Livin’ The Dream Tour all around Australia igniting audiences with their high energy live show that never fails to impress. To add to their impressive list of achievements the duo were awarded 3 Golden Guitars at this year’s 2024 Country Music Awards – Group or Duo of the Year, Collaboration of the Year and the prestigious Album of the Year, bringing their total to 9 Golden Guitars.

They have also been recently announced to perform with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in a musical event that features The Wolfe Brothers song catalogue from the last 13 years of the brothers career in country music. These shows will be performed in both Hobart and Launceston in April and the intention is for this to be recorded for release in the near future.

There is no doubt that Tom and Nick are definitely LIVIN’ THE DREAM.