Fortunate Youth
Fortunate Youth is a collaboration of South Bay reggae stand-outs. Coming from various bands, they've created a phenomenal 7 piece bringing more fire to the stage than ever before. Combining rootsy vibes and heavy bass lines united with multiple harmonies and boisterous solos, separates Fortunate Youth from every other mainstream reggae band. With their high energy approach and positive stage presence they provide an unforgettable show to every music fan. Also providing instrumentals on extreme sports video games, Surf films, tv and radio commercials to recording full length albums. They have played with bands such as Groundation, The Abyssinians, Tribal Seeds, Sashamon, and Passafire. . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
About This Event
From backyard BBQs in Southern California beach towns to its rise as one of the most popular reggaerock bands in the country, Fortunate Youth remains devoted to its roots and a simple mission: Spreadpeace, love, and unity with music. It's a mantra of sorts for the multi-faceted sextet from HermosaBeach, driving a relentless thirst for live performances and an ever-evolving cache of original materialdotted with influences of blues, ska, rock, world, soul, and punk. It was first on SoCal Little League fields that the core of the group bonded as friends and brothers beforeforming the band as twenty-somethings in the summer of 2009.
Out of the ashes of local favorites RudeBoy Roots and Irie State of Mind, Fortunate Youth emerged, graduating from house parties to prizedarea clubs; and sneaking underage band members into South Bay bars to play their ambitious sets. , andlogging two years of roadwork before recording their first album. They played to small but passionatecrowds, slept on floors, and earned particularly rabid responses in Florida and the cannabis-friendly skitowns of Colorado.
And true to their egalitarian ethos of brotherhood, even swapped spots onstage,rotating instruments to best fit the performance. Y. Including theforthcomingGood Times, Fortunate Youth has also catalogued over a dozen releases-tenLPs and EPs, studio and live combined, and several singles-since their 2011 debut,Irie State of Mind;notably, all have been recorded, produced, and distributed, in DIY style, by the self-invested band.
AfterIriepeaked at #2, their next next three studio sets-2013'sIt's All a Jam; 2015'sDon't Think Twice; 2017'sFortunate Youth-each hit #1 onBillboardand ITunes Reggae charts, and landed in the Top 25 of severalothers. Now, with the glistening title track, , "rdquo" -> Good Times (Roll On)," as the album's lead single, Fortunate Youthturns a slightly nostalgic eye to its humble beginnings in the backyard, plus a few new tasty surprisesunder the lid. Also, there's a wish: that the return of those feel-good vibes finds brighter days for theplanet.
, "rdquo" -> We're trying to change the world through the music we write and play, and the lives we liveout performing onstage," says singer Dan Kelly. , "rdquo" -> We always hope our music can change the outlook ofanyone's day.
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