PORT ANGELES — The walls of the Whitman home vibrate every Friday night as the five members of The Lonely H turn up their amps and rock out.
On Valentine’s Day, their music will sound all the more sweet as they cast their songs across Experience Music Project’s Sky Church in Seattle.
The concert could be the next step up for the band of boys from Port Angeles High School who have secured a spot among nine semifinalists in EMP’s annual Sound Off! young people’s band competition, opened to people 21 and younger.
“We just have to do really good, and then we’ll be on our way,” says 14-year-old Mark Fredson, a freshman who sings, plays piano and writes the band’s song lyrics.
Fredson and his fellow band members — 14-year-old drummer Ben Eyestone, 15-year-old guitarists Eric Whitman and Colin Field, all freshmen, and 17-year-old bassist Johnny Whitman, a junior — combined forces a little over a year ago and write all their own music.
They caught the attention of contest judges last month when they submitted a 15-minute demo CD of four songs they recorded in a basement.
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The rest of the story appears in Friday’s Peninsula Daily News.
