WCCO's "Take It Outside," an outdoor summer concert series in downtown Minneapolis, MN.
Volume One Magazine's "Sounds Like Summer" concert series at Phoenix Park in Eau Claire, WI.
"Raise Your Hands," from our debut CD Solstice, was featured during the July 3rd Minnesota Twins game at Target Field.
Press
“A recent expedition to the Twin Cities uncovered this 8-man reggae band. Irie Sol is a tight unit with a live show that will blow your joints out. Their horn section is D-Nice…takin’ out suckas and you don’t know how they did it.” O.J. Lima, Editor-at-Large, VIBE Magazine, President of limachips.com, an NYC-based hub of global DJ and hip hop culture (New York City, NY).
“Solstice is an instantly likable collection of songs.” Ross Raihala, St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN).
“Solstice is a perfect mix of the bands influences, amazingly enough without muddying up or dumbing down any of the original sources. It’s something that is so easy to write, and yet so hard to pull off–to be more than the sum of your parts…One song can range from a protest reggae march to a smooth jam to a towering inferno of funk…Hardened groove-thang shakers the world over, rejoice: your band just arrived!” Ian Jacoby (The Laarks), Volume One Magazine (Eau Claire, WI).
“Irie Sol is comprised of eight musicians who play guitar, bass, sax, trumpet, flute, drumset, djembe, and conga. This allows the band to bring in a variety of styles and influences, including the diverse vocal renderings of three singers (Junior, JP, and Lars Nelson). There is everything here from island music to soaring Spanish trumpet and guitar solos, and everything in between. Irie Sol writes original music and has a new CD, Solstice, out now.” Janie Franz, Skope Magazine (Boston, MA).