The Ocean Blue w/ The Innocence Mission

Lincoln Hall // Sat, March 19th // 9PM // $20 // 21+

The Ocean Blue: [http://www.theoceanblue.com/]
The Ocean Blue‘s debut record on the famed Sire Records label in 1989 achieved widespread acclaim and radio & MTV airplay. The band of four high schoolers from Hershey, Pennsylvania went on to do two more well-received records for Sire, the atmospheric Cerulean and alt pop Beneath the Rhythm and Sound, and a fourth record for Mercury/PolyGram, See The Ocean Blue, before leaving the majors in the late 90s. The band did several independent releases in the 2000s, including Davy Jones Locker and Waterworks, and in 2013 released their first full length record in over 10 years, Ultramarine, on Korda Records, a new Minneapolis cooperative label that the band helped launch in late 2012.

In 2015, the band's first 3 albums for Sire will be reissued on vinyl, and the band will be performing their first 2 records in concert, in their entirety, as part of a limited number of special shows to mark the occasion.

A new full length record is in the works and slated for release in 2016.

Innocence Mission: [http://theinnocencemission.com/]
The guys in The Ocean Blue have a long and deep friendship with Don & Karen of The Innocence Mission that goes back to some of each band’s first shows in Pennsylvania and their major label debut records on Sire and A&M. The Innocence Mission‘s new record is a beautiful work that we can’t wait to share with you. Here is a video for the new record and another for a track off their 2010 release, My Room In The Trees.

Don and Karen (McCullough) Peris formed the innocence mission with school friend and bassist Mike Bitts while the three were students at the Catholic high school in their hometown, Lancaster Pa, where they still live. They released three albums with A and M Records before finding their way more clearly with Birds of My Neighborhood (1999 RCA), the first of eight self -produced albums. Though grateful for the countless kind listeners they met with while touring for earlier albums, Don and Karen Peris made a decision after Birds to devote themselves to raising their two children and to continue communicating from home with the indy albums that followed, including Befriended (2003), We Walked in Song (2006), and My Room in the Trees (2010). Concerts have included performances with Sufjan Stevens, Natalie Merchant, and Emmylou Harris. Guests performances on recordings include Joni Mitchell's album Night Ride Home and the Natalie Merchant album Ophelia. Films featured in include Weathered, The Importance of Being a Wallflower, Fireflies in the Garden, and The Human Experience.