Jesse Royal

This show is sponsored by Best Daze and Emily Branden. 

Celebrate Santa Fe's Yoga Extraordinaire Emily Branden's twentieth year of teaching with a free half-hour Live Music + Yoga class at 6:30 PM with Boomroots Acoustic in the Railyard Arts District. Come gather for the first time in a long time—and breathe while you move. BRING A YOGA MAT

Join your Santa Fe neighbors on the Railyard Plaza beside the landmark Water Tower for great FREE concerts all summer long.

• Feel free to bring chairs to the concert.
• Food and drink are available inside Second Street Brewery and Violet Crown Cinema, plus food trucks will be available. 
• Bring your water bottle—we will have filling stations.
• Come down early to get a spot on the Second Street Brewery patio to enjoy a a cold beer with the music!
• Violet Crown has patio drink & dining options too.
• Ample parking is available in the underground garage just north of REI.
• Download a map (JPG) showing all of the Railyard parking and transportation options.

Register for the event and we'll also send you updates if there are any schedule changes as well as info on future free programs and events around Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

The Santa Fe Plaza Concert Series is made possible with the generous support of Falling Colors Foundation.

Jesse Royal broke out in 2014 with the runaway success of the single "Modern Day Judas," and solidified his position at the forefront of the genre in 2017 with his debut full-length Lily of da Valley. That album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Reggae Chart and #36 on the independent albums chart.

The singer-songwriter has been a key player in Jamaica's current reggae movement along with his contemporaries Chronixx, Protoje, and Koffee, and he returns this summer with Royal, his modern take on the genre.

On Royal, Jesse's messages are rich and conscious, possessing the fervor of reggae and Rastafari at its core while mixing in elements from a multitude of genres. "On this album you will hear elements of hip-hop, jazz, blues, Afrobeats and dancehall but reggae is the backbone that holds everything in place. We can't run from the authentic energy and vibes bestowed upon us by the Most High because that is what makes us great; there are things that you learn along the way, but greatness is when you know yourself," Jesse says about Royal.

The Boomroots Collective brings high level progressive Reggae and Hip Hop music, which has been described as "Jamaican funk with New Mexican Soul." The Collective is a community of artists bringing a unique mix of two genres for one reason: LOVE.

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