By MATT LINDSEY

POTSDAM — Four Potsdam natives, all original members of Gigolo Aunts, will reunite in January for the first time in several years to play the charity show “Hot Stove Cool Music” in Boston, Mass.

“I think the last time the original four members played together was at a house show in Hannawa Falls,” said founding member Phil Hurley.

The band also includes Phil’s brother Steve Hurley, Dave Gibbs and Paul Brouwer. The band was originally called Sniper but changed their name a few years later.

The band, although not in its original form, played in the Boston area last year. Hurley says fans can find the show on YouTube.

Gigolo Aunts won’t have much time to practice but will play songs from their “flippin’ out era” which has a 90s sound.

“The sound is a little more raw, a little more rock-n-roll,” Hurley said.

“People were like, hey we love this band and it reminded them of our contributions to the area,” he said.

The fundraising event will take place Jan. 9 bringing together athletes and rock and roll musicians to raise money for the Foundation To Be Named Later.

“This is a dream come true for us music and sports geeks,” he said. “I’m still pinching myself.”

Hurley says his brother asked someone associated with the event if his band could be a part of it and the answer was a quick yes.

The night will see baseball players like Bronson Arroyo and Jake Peavy, members of championship Boston Redsox teams, hit the stage to play music alongside their rock-n-roll idols. Also expected to play is former New York Yankee Bernie Williams.

“In baseball trades there is the phrase ‘a player to be named later’ and the name of the charity is an inside joke based off of that,” Hurley said.

The event was created in 2000 by legendary baseball journalist Peter Gammons and former Boston Herald sports writer Jeff Horrigan. Over the previous 15 years, Hot Stove Cool Music has become a staple on Boston's entertainment calendar and has raised more than $8 million for Theo and Paul Epstein's Foundation To Be Named Later. Epstein served as the general manager for the Boston Redsox from 2003 until 2011.

The band plays rock music with alternative and pop layers mixed in.

The band became a staple on the Northern New York music scene, gaining a reputation for frenetic live sets that featured the close harmonies of the Hurley brothers and Gibbs. In the summer of 1987 the band re-located to Boston.

“After our first show in New York City we got a record deal.” Hurley attributed that deal to their success in the Boston area.

They have released several full-length albums with Pacific Ocean Blues being the last one in 2002. The album Minor Chords and Major Themes, released in 1999, was a huge hit in Spain and created more opportunities to play there and a dedicated fan base.

From there the band travelled extensively for about 15 years around the United States and Europe gaining more popularity following a few hit songs in England and even touring Japan.

They have toured with bands like The Counting Crows, The Cranberries and The Wallflowers but also were the headliners for many shows, especially in England.

Their repertoire and reputation grew, leading to recording contracts and CDs and EPs, and even to performing their music in a few Hollywood movies in the 1990s, including “Dumb and Dumber.”

The members have all moved on from life in Potsdam and live in various parts of the country but still remember their time in Northern New York fondly.

‘We send our love to Potsdam and hope to get back up there to play for them sometime,” Hurley said.