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The WDVX Blue Plate Special – 7/10 – Dayes / Will Wesley & Florian Fox
July 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Teaching the periodic table by day, crafting feel good indie folk songs by night. Patrick Morelli started the indie folk project known as “dayes” in 2022 in Boston, MA. dayes is inspired by Morelli’s love for alternative rock bands like Dispatch and Mt. Joy combined with his love for folk artists such as Caamp, The Lumineers, and Chadwick Stokes. The hope of this project is to remind the listeners that we’re all in this together. dayes debut album comes out this summer, June 2025. Thank you all for being here and supporting the music!
Grit has forever seeped from the pores of country rocker Will Wesley, a grit that has materialized as life has punched him from every angle, often forcing the kid from Louisiana to take his anger out on the strings of his beat-up guitar.
Born in the picturesque town of Baker, Louisiana, Wesley was born with a rebellious spirit. He never loved playing by the rules and didn’t particularly like the word ‘no.’. In fact, the word alone would drive him to do the exact opposite of what everyone wanted him to do.
He started sneaking into bars at the age of 15, often using his beard to fool everyone to think he belonged there. But once he stepped on stage with the beat-up guitar his dad inspired him to play, everyone went and ignored the fact that he legally wasn’t supposed to be there.
He was that good.
From the start, Wesley was drawn to the sorrowful sounds of the blues, and his natural talents within the genre began to speak loudly. Originally planting his boots into the dirt of the Baton Rouge blues scene, the musical rebel began touring behind the likes of legends such as Larry Garner, Tabby Thomas, and Grady Champion. At the same time, he began racking up the accolades, and won the New Orleans regional division of the International Blues Challenge not once…but twice.
Wesley also went and served as the Music Director for Grammy-winning Blues Artist Grady Champion for 5 years, and for a time, it was as if the road in which he would build a life on was being paved for him.
But at a time when Wesley should have felt his most content, he found himself at a crossroads, both personally and professionally. Being torn from every angle eventually resulted in Wesley falling into a dark depression that had him contemplating the unthinkable. But it was this pain that needed an outlet, an outlet that he eventually found most easily captured within the country music genre.
Because the fact was this – he was about much more than just blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caiMQJaxjUE
Florian Fox is the “Swiss guy of the hour”. With his neo-traditional country style, Florian Fox (32) has played his way onto some of the most renowned festival and club stages and into the heart of the US music metropolis of Nashville in less than four years.
His new country-pop EP “True Love”, released on February 14, 2025, accompanies him on his “True Love Tour” alongside U.S. artist Drake Milligan. Florian will kicked off the year with his single “Home” published on January 24, 2025.
Florian Fox is 2024 Texas Sounds International Country Music Award “Entertainer of the Year” and a voting member of the Country Music Association (CMA) in Nashville TN. He has been nominated for the prestigious Swiss cultural award “Prix Walo” in the category Country on May 24, 2025 (live broadcast on national television SRF 1 starting at 8.00 pm CET).







