City of Gainesville officials to present Key to the City to Less Than Jake
Press release from the City of Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gainesville Mayor Harvey Ward and City Commissioner Bryan Eastman will present ska-punk band Less Than Jake with a Key to the City at a benefit performance during the group’s annual Wake and Bake Festival.
When: Saturday, March 14
Time: Between 2:30-4 p.m.
Where: First Magnitude Brewing Company, 1220 SE Veitch St.
The event begins at noon. Proceeds will benefit GRACE Marketplace and Bread of the Mighty Food Bank, two local organizations that provide assistance to neighbors in need.
City officials also will proclaim March 14 as Less Than Jake Day in Gainesville, recognizing the band’s role in helping make Gainesville a national destination for punk and independent music with such hits as “Gainesville Rock City,” among others.
The proclamation also recognizes the band for supporting local nonprofits, uplifting local musicians, and maintaining ties to Gainesville throughout more than three decades of touring and recording.
The band formed in Gainesville in 1992 and has become one of the most recognized groups in ska-punk, releasing nine studio albums. Band members include Chris DeMakes, Roger Lima, Buddy Schaub, J.R. Wasilewski, and Matt Yonker.
Wake and bake is a slang term for waking up and smoking pot.
Great inspiration for our youth!
You must be fun at parties
Gainesville rock city. Great video.
Eastman and Ward have nothing better to do?
Don’t you love the Woke & Joke citizen insane, about a hometown band coming back to Town to Raise Money for Local Charity that Feeds our Community and like a dog insane in the membrane cane goes postal about them getting Recognition for doing something decent that Benefits Us in and Hear Gainesville. Congrats to Less then Jake and today you can help charity if attend, Dont worry insane in the membrane Won’t be there