2024

Jake Kulak and the Modern Vandals

July 30th, 7:00 PM

Award-winning musician and guitar phenom, Jake Kulak has been performing professionally in front of audiences since the age of 12. Thrilling audiences from Norway to Boston, from Sydney to NYC, and down to the Mississippi Delta, Jake plays guitar-driven rock music which highlights his improvisational and jam abilities. His set list includes original rock music, as well as unique covers of blues, rock and funk artists spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. Jake has spent five summers playing in the home of the Blues - Clarksdale, Mississippi. Jake was voted Best Blues Band or Singer by the Hartford Courant’s CTNOW Reader’s Poll.

He and his power trio were also nominated for a New England Music Award for “Best New Act of the Year”. In 2019, they competed all summer in the Foxwoods Resort Casino’s prestigious “Battle of the Bands” and took home the $10,000 Grand Prize award. Two of Jake’s original songs "Circles" and "Caution Tape" just were announced as semi-finalists in the 2023 International Songwriting Competition, the "songwriting competition to take note of" according to the NY Times. The band has won the Connecticut Blues Society Band Challenge and performed at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN. Jake’s debut album “Get Faded and Go” was recognized in The Hartford Courant’s “Best Album by CT Musicians”. Jake has also been inducted into the CT Blues Hall of Fame.