When three trained musicians get together and form a band that was partly named after a telephone number, a project ensues; a Hugeworld Project in fact.
Hugeworld Project will be taking the stage at Howard’s Club H on Saturday, December 11th at 8 p.m.
The members of the band, Tony “Papa” Papavasilopoulos (Lead vocals, lead guitar, founder and songwriter), Mohom (Bass and sitar), and Elijah Vazquez (Drum, background vocals and BGSU alumnus) work together at BG Music and Sound and decided in June to get together and form a trio that mixes elements of Wilco-like lyrics with hints of bluegrass, funk, blues, jam, jazz and rock in which Papavasilopoulos says, “is different from the local bands around here who are mostly heavy, a lot of punk, a lot of metal, but we offer a sorta jam band, melodic rock, and Americana feeling. We are out to do something different.”
Tony Papavasilopoulos, or Tony Papa, got the idea to form Hugeworld Project after he left his Milwaukee-based band, Freshwater Collins, and returned to Bowling Green to teach guitar lessons. There he met another guitar teacher, Elijah Vazquez, and an instrument repair technician, Mohom and decided to borrow the name “Hugeworld Project” from an old roommate. The house that Tony Papa and his roommate lived in on Wooster was a very open, creative house that had a telephone number in which the last four digits spelled out huge. The name, Hugeworld Project, was then created and later borrowed by the trio because, as Tony Papa says, “This band incorporates many different musical influences, and there is something for everyone in our music. It’s a huge world; there are a lot of musical influences. We even use a sitar in our songs and everybody goes crazy! We haven’t had any bad feedback and we are gaining a pretty big fan base.”
That’s not all they are gaining however. The band is looking forward to a CD and DVD release, which will be possibly sold at their upcoming Dec. 17th show at Club Bijou and their Dec. 25th show at Nate and Wally’s.
Admission to the show is the cost of cover at Howard’s in which Tony Papa should be about $2-$3 and Hugeworld Project’s set begins at 8 p.m. Their website is currently under construction but will be hugeworldproject.com, in which will include their CD, DVD, merchandise and upcoming tour dates.
Tony Papa also assures that everyone should take a break from exams and come down and see the show at Howard’s on Dec. 11th. “If you reach that point of diminishing returns in your studying, come out and get a little bit of inspiration. It’s a cheap cover, you could feed that into a jukebox it’s only two or three bucks…if you like Phish, if you like funk, if you like Hendrix or Bluegrass, you’re going to like us. All we do is music. We do it everyday and it shows through our stage performances. So come out and see us!”