THE BAND
What do you get when you combine Pittsburgh bluegrass musicians who inexplicably find themselves forming a pack united by their love of acoustic string music, heady improv, weird sonic sensibility and obscure reggae tunes?
You get The Wolf Tones.
Along the way — and true to our free-roaming wolf ancestors — the journey is unplanned. Sets can bounce from old-school Flatt & Scruggs to a grassed-up version of a Toots & the Maytals tune in the blink of an eye and the flick of a banjo string.
The pack is always on the move, combining a repertoire of classic bluegrass with an adventurous improv spirit... and occasionally covering Ween and Davie Bowie. Or Harry Belafonte. Or a whole night of Jerry Garcia tunes.
Join us in welcoming our new bass player Kyle Greene to the pack!
We're wolves. We play bluegrass. It gets weird.
Come #howl with the pack.
JOE DEP
Joe is the founder of the Shelf Life String Band and host of the weekly Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions at the Thunderbird Café in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood.
PATRICK VARINE
Patrick is a guitarist, a Pittsburgh-area singer-songwriter and a member of the Sweaty Already String Band.
ARCHIE CORTEZ
Archie is a member of the Shelf Life String Band.
KYLE GREENE
Kyle is our new bass player! He also plays looping gigs on both bass and guitar as the Kyle Greene Band.
DAVE NEMO
[lupus alumnus emeritus]