BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:579@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T230000 DTSTAMP:20240820T185610Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/lawrence-the-family-busines s-tour/ SUMMARY:Lawrence – The Family Business Tour DESCRIPTION:As NPR writes\, “siblings Clyde and Gracie Lawrence are not y our typical pair.” Clyde Lawrence and Gracie Lawrence have been writing songs and listening to countless Stevie Wonder\, Randy Newman\, and Aretha Franklin records in their family’s New York City apartment since they w ere little kids. After years of playing together\, they officially created Lawrence\, an eight-piece soul-pop band comprised of musician friends fro m childhood and college. The band has since gained a devoted following for its high-energy\, keyboard-driven sound\, which features tight\, energeti c horns and explosive lead vocals.\n\n \;\n\nIn July 2021\, Lawrence r eleased their new album\, Hotel TV\, and became the first band to release music under Beautiful Mind Records\, the label of Grammy-winning producer/ songwriter/artist Jon Bellion\, who co-produced and co-wrote the songs on the album. The tracks on Hotel TV have garnered tens of millions of stream s across all platforms and have had multiple viral moments on Tik Tok and Instagram. The album’s lead single\, “Don’t Lose Sight\,” was feat ured in an international Microsoft commercial\, which propelled it into th e Top 20 on the USA Shazam Pop Charts\, and also hit #33 on Top 40. The ba nd performed “Don’t Lose Sight” on Jimmy Kimmel Live\, did a perform ance of it for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, and closed both of the ir sets at Coachella with it (with the entire audience singing along)! The band is working on a new album\, and their most recent single\, “23” came out in November 2023. They played “23” and other new music live d uring their set at Jingle Ball in 2023. \n\n \;\n\nTouring has been a key component of the group’s rise to success\; In 2023\, the band joine d Jonas Brothers on their four month\, sixty-five show tour across North A merica. The release of Hotel TV was also supported by the Hotel TV Tour\, a 53-city tour across major cities in North America\, including sold out s hows at Terminal 5 in New York City\, House of Blues in Chicago\, and two nights at the Royale in Boston\, among others. The band is releasing a doc useries from their adventures on the road of their Hotel TV Tour\, airing throughout the summer and fall of 2023 on YouTube. The band followed their Hotel TV Tour with a co-headline tour with MisterWives\, and then ended 2 022 with their first ever Lawrence festival entitled “Staycation\,” wh ich featured three nights of sold out headlines shows at Brooklyn Steel\, which they curated with numerous special guests and non-repeating sets. La wrence also completed a headline tour across Europe in March with sold out shows in London\, Paris and Amsterdam. In addition to directly supporting the Jonas Brothers on their 2023 North America tour\, they’ve also tour ed with acts such as Lake Street Dive\, Vulfpeck\, Jon Bellion\, Jacob Col lier\, Soulive\, O.A.R.\, and Bernhoft\, and has appeared at major festiva ls including Coachella\, Bonnaroo\, Outside Lands\, Firefly\, Okeechobee\, Hangout\, and Summerfest.  They have performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live\, Th e Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, The Today Show &\; NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly.\n\n \;\n\nIn addition to creating music\, in Decemb er 2022\, Clyde Lawrence (lead vocals\, keyboards) wrote an article publis hed by the New York Times regarding the unfair dynamics that artists face in the live music industry as a result of the merging of Ticketmaster and Live Nation. In January 2023\, Clyde Lawrence and Jordan Cohen (saxophone\ , tour manager) were invited to testify at a U.S. Senate Judiciary hearing in Washington\, D.C.\, on the topic of live event ticketing. They sat alo ngside other industry professionals\, as well as antitrust experts\, to de liver a testimony about their experiences as a touring band playing in Liv e Nation-owned venues across the U.S. Lawrence and Cohen continue to sprea d the word about the challenges in the live event promotion and ticketing space in conversations with outlets like NBC News\, Vice News\, Politico\, and more.\n\n \;\n\nIn 2024\, the band will enter a new era – Famil y Business. In January\, Lawrence announces their upcoming fourth studio a lbum\, Family Business\, releasing mid 2024\, along with their biggest hea dline tour yet across Europe (Summer 2024) and North America (Fall 2024).\ n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2024/01/REV_LAW-4x6-1.jpg CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States GEO:26.121358;-80.1461974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Laud erdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolution Live:geo:26.121358,-80.1461974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR