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Jack Johnson Tickets – Working for the Sea, Land & Air

Returning to the stage for 2010, earth friendly surfer Jack Johnson’s aptly named To the Sea is helping the sea, the land and the air in the first environmentally friendly world tour. Kicking off the tour in July, he’ll close out in October in his former stomping ground, Santa Barbara. The June release will mark his fifth studio effort, an effort that has Johnson producing with band members Merlo Podlewski, Zach Gill and Adam Topol. If you haven’t seen this professional surfer turned contemporary rock star perform live, check out http://www.stubhub.com/, where you’ll surely find <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.stubhub.com/jack-johnson-tickets/”>Jack Johnson tickets</a> today.

A longtime environmentalist, Johnson finds that consciously living aware of the environment is synonymous with breathing. Since growing up on Oahu’s North Shore, Johnson always been a born lover of Mother Nature’s powerful ways and can’t image life without them. Now he’s doing something proactive about protecting it â?? from donating 100% of tour proceeds to the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation to creating the Kokua Festival in Hawaii. The latter is an environmentally friendly get-together that raises awareness and funds for his foundation.

“Once we started doing this fest in Hawaii, [we started] learning ways we could lessen the negative impact of a show by using biodiesel, water stations, recycling bins, all the little things you could do to lessen the negative impact,” Johnson said to MTV. “And then started to see how you could expand on the positive impact by having local nonprofit groups at every venue you play, so as the people from that town are coming to the shows.”

A former professional surfer, Johnson turned to music when a near fatal surfing accident left him daunted. Luckily, he’d been studying film while at the University of California, Santa Barbara and his first video led to a showcase of skills as director and songwriter. Thicker Than Water was released in 2000 and partnered Johnson with friends Chris Malloy and Emmett Malloy that showcased Johnson’s directorial abilities as well as several self-penned tunes. That year Surfer Magazine honored the video with its top prize of Video of the Year, allowing the guys to create the second film The September Sessions.

It wasn’t long before Johnson’s music piqued the interest of fellow melodic indie star G. Love & Special Sauce, who ended up covering Johnson’s September Sessions since for their ’99 album. Brushfire Fairytales appeared in 2001 and featured Ben Harper; the set went platinum, and after a year of touring he produced the next album On and On. The surfer-folk vibe stayed true through Johnson’s third effort as well; In Between Dreams was released in 2005 and recorded at the Mango Tree Studio in Hawaii.

While he might have been an underground star following In Between Dreams, it was the fourth album â?? Sing A Long and Lullabies for the Film Curious George â?? that put him into the mainstream market. Sure, surfers and Southern Californians knew who Johnson was, but when the film soundtrack debuted it made him a megastar. Sing A Long went on to sell 140,000 copies in its first week alone and helped to maintain Johnson’s well mannered attitude and soul surfer vibe.

 

 

 

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