Jakob Nowell Live at the Golden Gate Park Bandshell, San Francisco
Join us for Crucial Reggae Sundays hosted by DJ Irie Dole & Guid8nce, special performance by Jakob Nowell.
About this event
Crucial Sunday Presented by Illuminate live with Value Culture, and support by San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, and the San Francisco Parks Alliance.
Hosted by DJ Irie Dole and DJ Guid8nce.
Special Performance by Jakob Nowell.
Jakob Nowell
Following in the footsteps of a famous parent can be difficult, but the path can be even tougher when one also battles the demon of addiction. Jakob Nowell, frontman for Long Beach, Calif., hard rockers LAW, understands this well. It is not so much that he is living in the shadow of his father, late singer Bradley Nowell from Sublime. In fact, he feels blessed that interest in his heritage is helping him build a buzz for his own music. But his father struggled with heroin addiction and succumbed to it in 1996, not quite a year after Jakob’s birth and shortly before the release of the band’s third album, Sublime, which ironically became a multiplatinum hit. Later on, Jakob battled the bottle for nearly a decade, and is now sober.
“I’ve always really liked the stage,” declares Jakob. “Being an entertainer and a performer has always really resonated with me. I think there’s a lot that one could do onstage that they can’t do off of it. Personally, I feel more comfortable up there in front of an audience than I do on the ground floor talking to people.”
His family started the Nowell Family Foundation in 2017 to offer financial aid to members of the music community seeking treatment for addiction. They are currently raising funds for Bradley’s House, a planned six-bed recovery facility to provide treatment for those in the industry struggling with opiate addiction and lacking the means to get help. Kellie Nowell, Jakob’s aunt, is executive director of the foundation.
