BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:SoDel X-WR-CALNAME:SOJA BEGIN:VEVENT UID:245052024-08-04 DTSTART:20240804T220000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20240804T040000Z LOCATION:31806 Lake View Drive\nSelbyville DE 19975 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=31806 Lake View Drive\nSelb yville DE 19975;X-APPLE-RADIUS=49;X-TITLE=31806 Lake View Drive:geo:38.466 017,-75.112054 GEO:38.466017;-75.112054 SUMMARY:SOJA CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Tickets are $49+fees For more than two decades\, SOJA has elate d\naudiences across the globe with their fresh yet timeless take on roots\ nreggae\, a sound born from their shared passion for making music that\ntr ansports and inspires. On their Grammy Award Winning album\, Beauty\nin th e Silence — the band deepens that communal spirit by\ncollaborating with artists from all corners of the reggae world\,\nincluding the likes of UB 40\, Slightly Stoopid\, Stick Figure\, and\nRebelution. Fueled by the shee r force of their connection and\nchemistry\, Beauty in the Silence ultimat ely makes for a much-needed\nantidote to fractured times\, infusing so muc h warmth and wisdom and\nunstoppable joy into each and every track. Like 2 014's acclaimed Amid\nthe Noise and Haste (a Grammy nominee for Best Regga e Album)\, the\ntitle to Beauty in the Silence references the opening line s of Max\nEhrmann's beloved poem \"Desiderata\": \"Go placidly amid the no ise and\nhaste\, and remember what peace there may be in silence.\" \"My d ad had\nthat poem memorized\, and before I'd go out on tour he'd sort of\n whisper it in my ear\,\" says SOJA frontman Jacob Hemphill. \"To me it's\n a reminder of what we lose when we get caught up in the distractions\nall around us. You get so used to life being loud and fast and\ngoal-oriented\ , but then you go out in nature and hear the silence and\nrealize\, 'Damn\ , I got tricked.' Life doesn't have to be all go\, go\,\ngo. The real key to life is in being still.\" In keeping with the\nnotion of slowing down\, SOJA deliberately took their time in creating\nBeauty in the Silence. As they explored new sonic terrain —\nrecording in such iconic spots as Mia mi's Circle House Studios and\nDave Matthews Band's Haunted Hollow\, and t eaming up with producers\nlike Niko Marzouca\, Mariano Aponte\, and Johnny Cosmic — the band\neventually phased into working remotely as stay-at-h ome orders set in\nacross the country. In that process\, lead guitarist Tr evor Young\n(formerly SOJA's guitar tech) took on a much greater role in t he\nband's creative direction\, co-producing alongside Hemphill and\ncaref ully shaping the album's hypnotic sound. \"I really love that this\nrecord is a mix of all of us together in a room and all of us far\napart\,\" say s Hemphill. \"It's something that I'd love to keep doing in\nthe future: l et's get together\, let's get the vibe and the groove\, and\nthen let's go off into our own worlds and discover what's there.\"\nInstantly setting t he album's mood of soulful celebration\, Beauty in\nthe Silence opens on \ "Press Rewind\" (ft. Collie Buddz and J Boog)\, a\ntrack that first took f orm late one night on Buddz's tour bus. \"We\nwere on tour together\, and after the show Collie was going through\nbeats on his phone\,\" says Hemph ill of the Bermudian reggae artist. \"He\nplayed me that one and I came up with the opening lyrics right away\,\nand it turned into a song where eve rybody tells their story of how\nthey fell in love with music — in my pa rt I'm talking about me and\nBobby and Byrd watching DVDs of Bob Marley an d Peter Tosh\, and\nrealizing that's what we wanted to do with our lives.\ " Capped off by a\nfiery verse from Hawaii-based reggae singer J Boog\, th e result is a\ngloriously radiant tribute to how music enlightens and sust ains us.\n\"The details are different for each of us\, but the story remai ns the\nsame: we fell in love with music\, and we couldn't ever break up\, \" says\nHemphill. In its delicate exploration of love in all its forms\, Beauty\nin the Silence also offers up intensely personal tracks like \"The Day\nYou Came\" (ft. Rebelution and UB40)\, a bittersweet breakup song th at\nperfectly captures the confusion of heartache. \"All my love songs are \na conglomerate of experiences I've had\; it's never about just one\npers on\,\" Hemphill points out. \"But one thing I always make sure to do\nis w rite from the perspective of the woman I was in the relationship\nwith\, b ecause to me that's the way to tell a story that's bigger than\nwhat happe ned between these two people.\" In a particularly meaningful\nturn for Hem phill\, \"The Day You Came\" finds UB40's Ali Campbell\nlending his soothi ng vocals to the final verse. \"Me and my dad used to\nsing 'Impossible Lo ve' by UB40 all the time — we'd sing together at\nhis piano\, we'd sing it when we were driving somewhere\,\" says\nHemphill. \"Before I even knew Bob Marley\, UB40 were my entry point\ninto loving reggae.\" As Beauty in the Silence unfolds\, SOJA reveals\nthe intangible magic that comes from letting their creative instincts\nrun free. On \"Break It Down\,\" for ins tance\, the band shares a stark\nyet sublimely detailed track that Young a nd Hemphill scratched out in\na New Caledonia hotel room. \"We'd just gott en to this beautiful island\nand all the other guys were going down to the beach\, but Jake and I\nsaid\, 'Nah\, we're just gonna sit in this room a nd make some songs\,'\"\nYoung recalls. Driven by a soul-stirring performa nce from SOJA\nsaxophonist Hellman Escorcia and trumpet player Rafael Rodr iguez\,\n\"Something To Believe In\" (ft. Stick Figure) emerged from an\ni nstrumental that Stick Figure frontman Scott Woodruff recorded in the\nstu dio he'd set up in his Sprinter van. \"It's a song about those times\nin l ife when you feel like you're walking through darkness and it's so\nhard t o find the light to lead you out\,\" says Hemphill. \"We actually\nwrote i t months before the pandemic started\, but it feels like it\ncould've come from that moment.\" And on \"Jump\" (ft. Slightly Stoopid)\,\nSOJA reimag ine a sweetly empowering song penned by their tour manager\,\nEric Swanson . \"When I was a kid someone asked me\, 'Would you accept\neverlasting lif e on the condition that you could never speak to\nanother human again?' An d my answer was no\,\" says Hemphill. \"'Jump' is\na song about how the re al basis of the human experience is connection\,\nand I love that it's SOJ A and Eric and Stoopid all coming together as\npeople who've known each ot her a very long time.\" One of the final\ntracks on Beauty in the Silence\ , \"Reason To Live\" (ft. Nanpa Básico\nand Dirty Heads) bears a certain spellbinding quality that Hemphill\npartly credits to Dirty Heads' mind-be nding creativity. \"Those guys\nare like mad scientists\; they've got musi c that sounds like hip-hop\nand reggae and pop all at once\, and at the ro ot of it are these lyrics\nthat hit you so hard\,\" he says. With its shim mering groove and\nshapeshifting textures\, \"Reason To Live\" features a Spanish-sung verse\nfrom Colombian hip-hop artist Nanpa Básico\, adding e ven more urgency\nto the song's message of open-hearted perseverance. \"Yo u might be\ngoing through life with all these plans and thoughts of how it 's all\ngoing to work out\, and then something happens and you realize tha t\nwhat you were so focused on was actually hurting you\,\" says Hemphill. \n\"The truth is that the future isn't in your hands\, and your reason to\ nlive might come from a place that you weren't expecting at all.\"\nElsewh ere on Beauty in the Silence\, SOJA join forces with everyone\nfrom up-and -comers like Filipino-American reggae singer Eli Mac (\"A\ntrue original\, and one of the most creative people I know\,\" according\nto Hemphill) to longtime friends and tourmates like the Hawaiian band\nCommon Kings (\"Th ey're a huge inspiration when you're on the road —\nevery single night\, they hit the stage like a fireball\"). And while\neach artist brings thei r own distinct sensibilities to the mix\, all of\nthe guest musicians are deeply aligned with SOJA's mission of\nuplifting the masses. \"My hero's a lways been Bob Marley\, and that's\nmainly because he had this way of lett ing people find their purpose in\nthe music\,\" says Hemphill. \"It didn't matter if you were white or\nblack or a girl or a boy or rich or poor\, y ou felt like he was talking\ndirectly to you. So that's what we were tryin g to do with this record:\nmake it as real as possible and tell the whole story of our\nexperience\, not just the shiny parts. That's how you create something\nthat really connects\, and that hopefully leaves this place at least a\nlittle better after you're gone.\" Venue: Freeman Arts Pavilion. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Tickets are $49+fees For more than two decades \, SOJA has elated audiences across the globe with their fresh yet timeles s take on roots reggae\, a sound born from their shared passion for making music that transports and inspires. On their Grammy Award Winning album\, Beauty in the Silence — the band deepens that communal spirit by collab orating with artists from all corners of the reggae world\, including the likes of UB40\, Slightly Stoopid\, Stick Figure\, and Rebelution. Fueled b y the sheer force of their connection and chemistry\, Beauty in the Silenc e ultimately makes for a much-needed antidote to fractured times\, infusin g so much warmth and wisdom and unstoppable joy into each and every track. Like 2014's acclaimed Amid the Noise and Haste (a Grammy nominee for Best Reggae Album)\, the title to Beauty in the Silence references the opening lines of Max Ehrmann's beloved poem \"Desiderata\": \"Go placidly amid th e noise and haste\, and remember what peace there may be in silence.\" \"M y dad had that poem memorized\, and before I'd go out on tour he'd sort of whisper it in my ear\,\" says SOJA frontman Jacob Hemphill. \"To me it's a reminder of what we lose when we get caught up in the distractions all a round us. You get so used to life being loud and fast and goal-oriented\, but then you go out in nature and hear the silence and realize\, 'Damn\, I got tricked.' Life doesn't have to be all go\, go\, go. The real key to l ife is in being still.\" In keeping with the notion of slowing down\, SOJA deliberately took their time in creating Beauty in the Silence. As they e xplored new sonic terrain — recording in such iconic spots as Miami's Ci rcle House Studios and Dave Matthews Band's Haunted Hollow\, and teaming u p with producers like Niko Marzouca\, Mariano Aponte\, and Johnny Cosmic — the band eventually phased into working remotely as stay-at-home order s set in across the country. In that process\, lead guitarist Trevor Young (formerly SOJA's guitar tech) took on a much greater role in the band's c reative direction\, co-producing alongside Hemphill and carefully shaping the album's hypnotic sound. \"I really love that this record is a mix of a ll of us together in a room and all of us far apart\,\" says Hemphill. \"I t's something that I'd love to keep doing in the future: let's get togethe r\, let's get the vibe and the groove\, and then let's go off into our own worlds and discover what's there.\" Instantly setting the album's mood of soulful celebration\, Beauty in the Silence opens on \"Press Rewind\" (ft . Collie Buddz and J Boog)\, a track that first took form late one night o n Buddz's tour bus. \"We were on tour together\, and after the show Collie was going through beats on his phone\,\" says Hemphill of the Bermudian r eggae artist. \"He played me that one and I came up with the opening lyric s right away\, and it turned into a song where everybody tells their story of how they fell in love with music — in my part I'm talking about me a nd Bobby and Byrd watching DVDs of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh\, and realizi ng that's what we wanted to do with our lives.\" Capped off by a fiery ver se from Hawaii-based reggae singer J Boog\, the result is a gloriously rad iant tribute to how music enlightens and sustains us. \"The details are di fferent for each of us\, but the story remains the same: we fell in love w ith music\, and we couldn't ever break up\,\" says Hemphill. In its delica te exploration of love in all its forms\, Beauty in the Silence also offer s up intensely personal tracks like \"The Day You Came\" (ft. Rebelution a nd UB40)\, a bittersweet breakup song that perfectly captures the confusio n of heartache. \"All my love songs are a conglomerate of experiences I've had\; it's never about just one person\,\" Hemphill points out. \"But one thing I always make sure to do is write from the perspective of the woman I was in the relationship with\, because to me that's the way to tell a s tory that's bigger than what happened between these two people.\" In a par ticularly meaningful turn for Hemphill\, \"The Day You Came\" finds UB40's Ali Campbell lending his soothing vocals to the final verse. \"Me and my dad used to sing 'Impossible Love' by UB40 all the time — we'd sing toge ther at his piano\, we'd sing it when we were driving somewhere\,\" says H emphill. \"Before I even knew Bob Marley\, UB40 were my entry point into l oving reggae.\" As Beauty in the Silence unfolds\, SOJA reveals the intang ible magic that comes from letting their creative instincts run free. On \ "Break It Down\,\" for instance\, the band shares a stark yet sublimely de tailed track that Young and Hemphill scratched out in a New Caledonia hote l room. \"We'd just gotten to this beautiful island and all the other guys were going down to the beach\, but Jake and I said\, 'Nah\, we're just go nna sit in this room and make some songs\,'\" Young recalls. Driven by a s oul-stirring performance from SOJA saxophonist Hellman Escorcia and trumpe t player Rafael Rodriguez\, \"Something To Believe In\" (ft. Stick Figure) emerged from an instrumental that Stick Figure frontman Scott Woodruff re corded in the studio he'd set up in his Sprinter van. \"It's a song about those times in life when you feel like you're walking through darkness and it's so hard to find the light to lead you out\,\" says Hemphill. \"We ac tually wrote it months before the pandemic started\, but it feels like it could've come from that moment.\" And on \"Jump\" (ft. Slightly Stoopid)\, SOJA reimagine a sweetly empowering song penned by their tour manager\, E ric Swanson. \"When I was a kid someone asked me\, 'Would you accept everl asting life on the condition that you could never speak to another human a gain?' And my answer was no\,\" says Hemphill. \"'Jump' is a song about ho w the real basis of the human experience is connection\, and I love that i t's SOJA and Eric and Stoopid all coming together as people who've known e ach other a very long time.\" One of the final tracks on Beauty in the Sil ence\, \"Reason To Live\" (ft. Nanpa Básico and Dirty Heads) bears a cert ain spellbinding quality that Hemphill partly credits to Dirty Heads' mind -bending creativity. \"Those guys are like mad scientists\; they've got mu sic that sounds like hip-hop and reggae and pop all at once\, and at the r oot of it are these lyrics that hit you so hard\,\" he says. With its shim mering groove and shapeshifting textures\, \"Reason To Live\" features a S panish-sung verse from Colombian hip-hop artist Nanpa Básico\, adding eve n more urgency to the song's message of open-hearted perseverance. \"You m ight be going through life with all these plans and thoughts of how it's a ll going to work out\, and then something happens and you realize that wha t you were so focused on was actually hurting you\,\" says Hemphill. \"The truth is that the future isn't in your hands\, and your reason to live mi ght come from a place that you weren't expecting at all.\" Elsewhere on Be auty in the Silence\, SOJA join forces with everyone from up-and-comers li ke Filipino-American reggae singer Eli Mac (\"A true original\, and one of the most creative people I know\,\" according to Hemphill) to longtime fr iends and tourmates like the Hawaiian band Common Kings (\"They're a huge inspiration when you're on the road — every single night\, they hit the stage like a fireball\"). And while each artist brings their own distinct sensibilities to the mix\, all of the guest musicians are deeply aligned w ith SOJA's mission of uplifting the masses. \"My hero's always been Bob Ma rley\, and that's mainly because he had this way of letting people find th eir purpose in the music\,\" says Hemphill. \"It didn't matter if you were white or black or a girl or a boy or rich or poor\, you felt like he was talking directly to you. So that's what we were trying to do with this rec ord: make it as real as possible and tell the whole story of our experienc e\, not just the shiny parts. That's how you create something that really connects\, and that hopefully leaves this place at least a little better a fter you're gone.\" Venue: Freeman Arts Pavilion. DTSTAMP:20261028T021640Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR