“Bringing a smooth vibe with strong guitar and horn lines, their sound amps up any mood. It warms you up on cold days, transports you to another place and makes you want to groove out. Seeing FeelFree live is a can’t-miss.” (District Fray)
We're a band of childhood friends creating sounds to help you FeelFree in this crazy world.
Formed in Alexandria, Virginia by multi-instrumentalists Andrew Pfeiffer, Evan Hulehan and Garrett Clausen a couple years after meeting in middle school band class, FeelFree's genre-blending, smooth sound soothes listeners by fusing breezy soundscapes with dynamic musicianship to create music brimming with sky high vibes. The band has independently written and produced three albums, garnered millions of streams across digital streaming services with their 2018 LP Define the Free winning a Wammie award for Washington DC's Best Reggae Album of 2018.
Pegged as "the sound of summer" by Northern Virginia Magazine, FeelFree has sold-out shows around the DC, Virginia and Maryland area, playing some of the mid-Atlantic’s biggest festivals like FloydFest, LOCKN’, and Jampacked, and shared the stage with critically-acclaimed internationally and nationally touring acts like Steel Pulse, Lettuce, Everclear, Sister Nancy, The English Beat, Sublime w/ Rome, The Movement, and The Elovaters to name a few.
The seeds of FeelFree were first planted in 2004 when Pfeiffer, Hulehan, and Clausen began playing music together in band class while enrolled at George Washington Middle School in Alexandria, VA. Reuniting after high school in 2010, FeelFree was officially formed. The band immediately began releasing songs on the internet over the course of 2010-2013 resulting in two albums worth of material: In The Hills (2012) and The Ebb Tide EP (2013) and then hit the road touring up and down the east coast. In 2015, the band entered the legendary Arlington, Virginia Inner Ear studio to work with critically acclaimed producer Don Zientara (Minor Threat, Fugazi) to begin work on their third album Define the Free. After a few band personnel changes in 2016, Kevin Raitz joined the band full-time on drums in 2017. In 2022, founding member Garrett Clausen moved from bass to keyboards filling out FeelFree’s vibrant live sound.