AP Howland native Braeden Lemasters from the band Wallows is shown performing at this year’s Coachella Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.

As a member of Wallows, Howland native Braeden Lemasters is spending the year performing at many of the world’s most prestigious music festivals — Coachella in California, Bonnaroo in Tennessee, Lollapalooza in Chicago, the Reading Festival in England and Austin City Limits Music Festival in Texas.

His love of music was fostered watching his dad, David Lemasters, play gigs at Mocha House in Warren, Leo’s Ristorante in Howland and the old Mahoning Valley Rib Burn-Off in Niles. His father, a Howland High School graduate, played in the later incarnation of Left End as well as groups like Triple Play and The Benders.

“My dad had literally everything to do with my initial love of music,” Lemasters said. “I would not be a musician, I would not be playing music if it wasn’t for my dad. I grew up going to his gigs. He really is one of my favorite musicians of all time.

“His love of music and his love of The Beatles made me want to play music when I was very young. I still love watching my dad play to this day.”

Before his music career started, Braeden Lemasters, 26, had success as a child actor. The family moved to California when Lemasters was about 8 so he could pursue an acting career.

He appeared in a McDonald’s commercial that aired during the Super Bowl in 2005 and landed a speaking role in an episode of HBO’s “Six Feet Under.”

Lemasters worked steadily as a tween and teenager — guest spots on “E.R.,” “Criminal Minds,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and “House,” regular roles on ABC’s “Betrayal” and TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age,” as well as parts in such films as “Easy A,” “The Stepfather” and “A Christmas Story 2.”

It was early in his acting career that Lemasters picked up the guitar.

“I would say it took me a year or two to fully want to pursue music,” he said. “I started playing guitar when I was maybe 10, but I didn’t really understand. I wanted to play, but I was a kid and it takes a lot of work to learn to play, so my attention span was like, ‘It’s OK, I don’t need to play.’

“My dad was like, ‘I’ll show you how to play.’ A year or two later, you couldn’t stop me from playing the guitar. I’d be in my room 10 hours a day by myself writing music, listening to (Led) Zeppelin records, Beatles records, (Jimi) Hendrix records. I was just so unbelievably into music.”

If his dad gets credit for inspiring his interest in music, his mother, Michelle, a Campbell High School graduate, is responsible for the platinum-certified band Wallows.

Lemasters’ mom and Dylan Minnette’s mom became friends online. Both were mothers of aspiring actors who moved from the Midwest to California so those children could pursue acting.

“Me and Dylan got along really well because his dad played music, his dad was in bands and he loved the same music I loved as a 12-year-old that one else really loved at 12,” Lemasters said. “We bonded over our love of music at Cheesecake Factory.”

After playing and writing songs together for about a year, their parents enrolled them in Join the Band, a School of Rock-type program where young musicians are paired with others of similar skill levels. That’s where they met Cole Preston, and the three have been making music together for a dozen years.

They played together under different names, such as The Narwhals and Feaver. They played L.A. rock clubs at night and then Lemasters and Minnette often had to show up on set for their acting jobs early the next morning.

“In our minds, we were serious (about music) from the get-go,” Lemasters said. “If you asked us at 13 about the band, ‘Oh, yeah, this is what we’re doing, this is our lives.’ We were definitely so focused. Being in a band that was quote unquote successful, that was always the goal. It was never a hobby.”

Their music started matching their acting success in 2017 when they released “Pleaser,” their first single as Wallows.

“The next day after we put out ‘Pleaser,’ four different record labels actually reached out to us, which is something that never happens. It happened really quickly after that,” he said.

“Are You Bored Yet?,” a collaboration with Clairo on Wallows’ 2019 debut album “Nothing Happens,” has been streamed more than 500 million times on Spotify. Other tracks have more than 100 million streams.

Lemasters hasn’t given up acting. He and Minnette, who is best known for the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” and recently appeared in the Hulu limited series “The Dropout,” still will look for acting jobs when the band isn’t touring or recording, he said, but those breaks in the band’s schedule are getting shorter and less frequent.

Wallows released its second album, “Tell Me That It’s Over,” in March. It was produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, who’s worked with such artists as Adele, Vampire Weekend and Haim.

While “Nothing Happened” had a more cohesive sound, the band took a different approach on the follow up.

“We kind of wanted each song to feel like its own world,” Lemasters said. “We knew Ariel had a very wide kaleidoscope of music knowledge, and we could achieve a lot of different sounds. We wanted this album to feel like each song is opening a different door to a whole new world.”

In addition to all of those major festivals, Wallows’ 2022-23 tour includes shows June 4 at the Agora Theatre in Cleveland and June 12 at Stage AE in Pittsburgh.

“The guest list for Cleveland, with all the people from Warren, is the biggest one for me, like 20 people, and that’s not all my family, just the ones who can make it,” Lemasters said.

And the guitar he played at Coachella in April and is taking with him on this tour is a white Fender Stratocaster that belongs to his dad.

“I thought that would be great. I love that guitar. He was like, ‘I don’t use it that much,’ and let me take it.”