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It’s not the band’s first show here; they opened for the popular party band Yachtley Crew twice here. But it will be the first time that the spotlight and attention is squarely on the trio — lead singer Mark Race, multi-instrumentalist Mat Charley and guitarist Joe Berger.

“It’s our first time seeing sometimes hundreds of people singing songs that we wrote, and it’s been what you dream about,� Race said during a phone call last week from a concert stop in Salt Lake City.

The band comes here ahead of releasing its fourth EP, “Bloom,� on June 20 and with plenty of experience as an opener for artists including Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, The Young Dubliners and the Cali “yacht� rockers Yachtley Crew.

But until now, Raynes had been hesitant to go out as headliners.

The trio started as a duo in 2015 when Charley and Berger were students at the University of St. Mary in their native North Dakota. Two years later, they discovered Durham, England, singer-songwriter Race from his Instagram and invited him to join and make the project a trio.

For the first few years, they collaborated mostly remotely while Race worked on his immigration status; he moved to the U.S. two years ago and now lives in Miami. The pandemic also threw a wrench in their plans; they didn’t perform together for 18 months. Their reunion was competing in Britain’s ITV music competition “Walk the Line� in 2021.

But despite the obstacles, Raynes managed to release three EPs, including 2023’s “A Ghost in the Walls,� a compilation of the seven singles the band released in its first couple of years, including an orchestral version of their first single, “Lemon Drop.�

The band has hundreds of thousands of followers on streaming platforms and millions of streams, which could explain why fans at their concerts seem to know every word to every song.

But Race admitted making the leap from opening act to headliner was a bit nerve-wracking.

“We were pretty scared that we were going to be playing to the bartender and the bartender’s cat, you know,� he joked. “I think we were all nervous, but I was terrified.�

In mid-April, Raynes packed their gear into a cargo trailer hitched to an SUV and opened the tour in Chicago. They will criss-cross the country and hit more than two dozen cities through late June, with additional dates being added along the way.

We get the band less than a month before they drop their fourth EP, “Bloom,� which includes the singles “Goldfish� and “Your Mouth Is a Garden,� which Zillions Magazine calls “a sweeping, lush flowerbed� that “sounds like sunlight after a long winter.�

“It’s a fizzy celebration of renewal, filled with melodic color and emotional clarity,� the said.

The band’s music is hard to define; it’s acoustic-leaning with multipart vocal harmonies. Their arsenal includes guitars, percussion, mandolin, violin, bouzouki and the occasional synthesizer, accordion and dulcimer.

There’s flashes of world music and folk delivered with the energy of rock. A videographer working with the band called them the “beautiful music band,� a label that suits Charley just fine.

“This kind of stems from our earlier days when it was just the three of us and we had some acoustic guitars and I had a mandolin, banjo, violin, stuff like that,� Charley said; the trio’s live shows include a drummer. “We would do little showcases around, just acoustically. And so since that time, I think most of our songs have acoustic instrumentation in them, and a lot of them are built kind of on that with guitar, mandolin, violin, something like that.�

Raynes will take the stage at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., at 6:30 p.m. Friday with openers and ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥â€™s own . Tickets are $18 in advance, $22 day of show through .