BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:SoDel X-WR-CALNAME:Foreigner BEGIN:VEVENT UID:71382021-08-21 DTSTART:20210821T230000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20210821T040000Z LOCATION:31806 Lake View Drive\nSelbyville DE 19975 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=31806 Lake View Drive\nSelb yville DE 19975;X-APPLE-RADIUS=49;X-TITLE=31806 Lake View Drive:geo:38.465 810,-75.112030 GEO:38.465810;-75.112030 SUMMARY:Foreigner CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:With 10 multi-platinum albums and 16 Top 30 hits\, Foreigner i s\nuniversally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world\nw ith a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out\ntours and album sales\, now exceeding 80 million.  Responsible for\nsome of roc k and roll’s most enduring anthems including “Juke Box\nHero\,” “C old As Ice\,” “Hot Blooded\,” “Waiting For A Girl\nLike You\,” “Feels Like The First Time\,” “Urgent\,” “Head\nGames\,” “Sa y You Will\,” “Dirty White Boy\,” “Long\, Long Way\nFrom Home” a nd the worldwide #1 hit\, “I Want To Know What Love\nIs\,” FOREIGNER  still rocks the charts more than 40 years into the\ngame with massive airp lay and continued Billboard Top 200 album\nsuccess.  Audio and video stre ams of Foreigner’s hits are over 15\nmillion per week. With more Top 10 songs than Journey and as many as\nFleetwood Mac\, FOREIGNER also features strongly in every category\nin Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time” listing.  At times\, the\nband’s weekly catalog sales have eclipsed th ose of Led Zeppelin\,\nAC/DC\, the Rolling Stones\, the Who\, Def Leppard\ , Van Halen\, Aerosmith\nand most of their Classic Rock peers (Source: N ielsen\nSoundScan). Foreigner‘s catalog sales were recently celebrated\ nin Business Insider as hitting the Top 40 among the Best Selling\nMusic Artists of All Time.  Foreigner is one of the most viewed\nYouTube Class ic Rock artists with weekly viewings frequently\nexceeding  the million m ark. Founded in 1976\,Foreigner‘s debut\nalbum produced the hits “Feel s Like The First Time\,” “Cold As\nIce” and “Long\, Long Way From Home.”  The album Double\nVision followed\, as did a string of hits i ncluding “Urgent\,”\n“Juke Box Hero” and “Waiting For A Girl Lik e You.” Those\nsongs helped give FOREIGNER‘s next album\, 4\, it s impressive\nrun at #1 on the Billboard chart. At the zenith of 80’s\ nsound\, FOREIGNER‘s fifth album\, Agent Provocateur\, gave the world\ nthe incredible No. 1 global hit\,” I Want To Know What Love\nIs.” Th is musical milestone followed the record-breaking song\n“Waiting For A G irl Like You.” Foreigner‘s founder is\nSongwriters Hall of Fame member Mick Jones. A visionary maestro\nwhose  stylistic songwriting\, indelibl e guitar hooks and\nmulti-layered talents continue to escalateForeigner‘ s influence and\nguide the band to new horizons.  Jones reformed the band after a 2002\nhiatus and selected lead singer Kelly Hansen to help write an inspired\nnew chapter in the history ofForeigner. One of rock’s grea test\nshowmen\, Hansen is among the most respected\, consummate profession als\nin rock and roll. With a 35-year career that spans almost every area\ nof music\, from the role of lead vocalist to producing and engineering\,\ nHansen has ledForeigner into the digital age while inspiring a whole\nnew generation of fans.  Foreigner’s lineup also includes\nmulti-instrumen talist Tom Gimbel\, noted Dokken bassist Jeff Pilson\,\nMichael Bluestein on keyboards\, guitarist Bruce Watson and Chris\nFrazier on drums. An unpr ecedented new level of energy led the\ngroup to a re-emergence of astoun ding music that speaks\ntoForeigner‘s enduring popularity. With renewed vitality and\ndirection\,Foreigner hit the Billboard charts again with th e 2005\nrelease of their live Greatest Hits album\, Extended\nVersions.  Can’t Slow Down followed in 2009 and entered the\nBillboard chart in t he Top 30\, driven by two Top 20 radio singles\,\n“In Pieces” and “W hen It Comes To Love.” To follow was the\nrelease of the band’s three- disc set\, Feels Like The First\nTime\, which included an acoustic CD wi th an intimate and unique\nre-interpretation of manyForeigner classics\, s tudio re-records by the\nnew lineup and a live performance DVD showcasing the group’s\nexceptional live energy. Foreigner’s music experienced an other surge\nin popularity in recent years thanks to usage in primetime te levision\,\nmajor motion pictures\, video games\, advertising\, and digita l content.\nFilms such as Rock of Ages\, Bad Moms\, Angry Birds\, Magic M ike\, Pitch\nPerfect\, The Good Boys\, television shows Orange Is The New Black\,\nStranger Things\, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Toni ght\nShow Starring Jimmy Fallon have all strongly featured Foreigner’s\n songs. Advertisers including Toyota\, Google\, Molson\, and Ford have\ntur ned to FOREIGNER’s music to engage their fans. In June 2013\, Mick\nJone s was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. A multi-talented\nand mu lti-dimensional “musician’s musician\,” Jones has also\nwritten song s such as “Bad Love” with Eric Clapton and\n“Dreamer” with Ozzy Os bourne\, and produced records for others\nincluding Billy Joel’s Storm Front and Van Halen’s 5150.  A\nGrammy and Golden Globe-nominated son gwriter\, Jones is the winner of\nthe prestigious British Ivor Novello Son gwriter Award for “The Flame\nStill Burns\,” the soundtrack music for the film Still Crazy. In May\n2014\, Atlantic Records Chairman Craig Kall man presented the band with\nRIAA gold and platinum digital awards for six Foreigner songs. These\nawards signify 500\,000 and 1\,000\,000 downloads of Foreigner hits.\nThat is more individual awards than any other heritag e rock band\, and\nan illustration ofForeigner’s resonance in the digita l era.   In\nrecent years\,Foreigner has headlined several Live Nation to urs\,\nrocking across the country and the world with contemporaries and\nf riends. In 2014\,Foreigner headlined The Soundtrack of Summer US\namphith eatre tour with Styx and Don Felder. A hits compilation album\nof the same name was released to coincide with the tour and\nimmediately hit the Bill board Top 200 chart. In 2015\,Foreigner joined\nKid Rock on his “Cheap D ate: First Kiss Tour.”  In October\n2016\, Foreigner hit a major miles tone when the band performed for the\nvery first time at New York’s icon ic Carnegie Hall with a sold-out\nacoustic show. The concert highlighted t he band’s ongoing\nrelationship with the Grammy Museum’s initiative to promote music\neducation in our nation’s schools. It included an a capp ella contest\namong New York high schools who competed for a $5\,000 prize donated by\nthe band. The year also brought the release of Foreigner‘s first\never live acoustic album In Concert: Unplugged\, recorded at\na o nce-in-a-lifetime private concert hosted by Edsel B. Ford II at\nthe Ford Motor Company Conference & Event Center in Detroit\, MI.  The\nband’s r oyalties were donated to JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research\nFoundation) and the album is available exclusively via Amazon.  The\nyear 2017 marked th e celebration of Foreigner‘s 40th anniversary.\nThe Warner Music Group r eleased a double CD set “40\,” which\nincludes 40 songs recorded betwe en 1977 and 2017. The album spent\nseveral weeks on the Billboard Top 200 chart and it features two\ntracks recorded especially for this release\, “Give My Life For\nLove” and a new version of “I Don’t Want To Liv e Without You.”\nThe album spent nine weeks in the Billboard Top 200 cha rt.  The US\nanniversary headline tour played 40 shows across the United States\nwhere the band was supported by Cheap Trick and Jason Bonham’s L ed\nZeppelin Experience. In April 2018\, Foreigner topped the Billboard\n Classic Album Charts for the first time with FOREIGNER WITH THE 21ST\nCEN TURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS\, a live recording of Foreigner’s\nfirs t-ever orchestral shows in Lucerne\, Switzerland. The band went on\nto hea dline orchestral shows in the US\, Europe\, Australia and New\nZealand thr oughout the year including sold-out appearances at\nLondon’s Royal Alber t Hall and the iconic Sydney Opera House. In the\nsummer of 2018\, FOREIGN ER starred in a thirty city Live Nation US\nsummer tour with Whitesnake an d Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening\nin support.  The excitement cont inued in 2019 with the premiere\nof Juke Box Hero\, the Musical in Canada . Following a series of\nsold-out workshops in Alberta and Calgary\, the m usical premiered in\nToronto in February and a Broadway run is on the hori zon.  The\nNovember 2019 release of \"Double Vision: Then & Now\" is a DV D/CD\npackage that celebrates the 40th anniversary of the iconic album.  It\nfeatures a stunning reunion concert that brings together the current\n and original band members playing all the hits at the top of their\ngame. Venue: Freeman Arts Pavilion. Presenter: Joshua M. Freeman\nFoundation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:With 10 multi-platinum albums and 16 Top 30 hi ts\, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel s old-out tours and album sales\, now exceeding 80 million.  Responsible fo r some of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems including “Juke Box He ro\,” “Cold As Ice\,” “Hot Blooded\,” “Waiting For A Girl Like You\,” “Feels Like The First Time\,” “Urgent\,” “Head Games\, ” “Say You Will\,” “Dirty White Boy\,” “Long\, Long Way From H ome” and the worldwide #1 hit\, “I Want To Know What Love Is\,” FORE IGNER still rocks the charts more than 40 years into the game with massiv e airplay and continued Billboard Top 200 album success.  Audio and video streams of Foreigner’s hits are over 15 million per week. With more Top 10 songs than Journey and as many as Fleetwood Mac\, FOREIGNER also featu res strongly in every category in Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time ” listing.  At times\, the band’s weekly catalog sales have eclipsed those of Led Zeppelin\, AC/DC\, the Rolling Stones\, the Who\, Def Leppard \, Van Halen\, Aerosmith and most of their Classic Rock peers (Source: N ielsen SoundScan). Foreigner‘s catalog sales were recently celebrated i n Business Insider as hitting the Top 40 among the Best Selling Music Ar tists of All Time.  Foreigner is one of the most viewed YouTube Classic R ock artists with weekly viewings frequently exceeding  the million mark. Founded in 1976\,Foreigner‘s debut album produced the hits “Feels Like The First Time\,” “Cold As Ice” and “Long\, Long Way From Home. ”  The album Double Vision followed\, as did a string of hits includi ng “Urgent\,” “Juke Box Hero” and “Waiting For A Girl Like You. ” Those songs helped give FOREIGNER‘s next album\, 4\, its impre ssive run at #1 on the Billboard chart. At the zenith of 80’s sound\,  FOREIGNER‘s fifth album\, Agent Provocateur\, gave the world the incr edible No. 1 global hit\,” I Want To Know What Love Is.” This musical milestone followed the record-breaking song “Waiting For A Girl Like Yo u.” Foreigner‘s founder is Songwriters Hall of Fame member Mick Jones. A visionary maestro whose  stylistic songwriting\, indelible guitar hook s and multi-layered talents continue to escalateForeigner‘s influence an d guide the band to new horizons.  Jones reformed the band after a 2002 h iatus and selected lead singer Kelly Hansen to help write an inspired new chapter in the history ofForeigner. One of rock’s greatest showmen\, Ha nsen is among the most respected\, consummate professionals in rock and ro ll. With a 35-year career that spans almost every area of music\, from the role of lead vocalist to producing and engineering\, Hansen has ledForeig ner into the digital age while inspiring a whole new generation of fans.  Foreigner’s lineup also includes multi-instrumentalist Tom Gimbel\, not ed Dokken bassist Jeff Pilson\, Michael Bluestein on keyboards\, guitarist Bruce Watson and Chris Frazier on drums. An unprecedented new level of en ergy led the group to a re-emergence of astounding music that speaks toF oreigner‘s enduring popularity. With renewed vitality and direction\,For eigner hit the Billboard charts again with the 2005 release of their live Greatest Hits album\, Extended Versions. Can’t Slow Down followed i n 2009 and entered the Billboard chart in the Top 30\, driven by two Top 2 0 radio singles\, “In Pieces” and “When It Comes To Love.” To foll ow was the release of the band’s three-disc set\, Feels Like The First Time\, which included an acoustic CD with an intimate and unique re-inter pretation of manyForeigner classics\, studio re-records by the new lineup and a live performance DVD showcasing the group’s exceptional live energ y. Foreigner’s music experienced another surge in popularity in recent y ears thanks to usage in primetime television\, major motion pictures\, vid eo games\, advertising\, and digital content. Films such as Rock of Ages\ , Bad Moms\, Angry Birds\, Magic Mike\, Pitch Perfect\, The Good Boys\, te levision shows Orange Is The New Black\, Stranger Things\, The Late Show w ith Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon have all st rongly featured Foreigner’s songs. Advertisers including Toyota\, Google \, Molson\, and Ford have turned to FOREIGNER’s music to engage their fa ns. In June 2013\, Mick Jones was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fa me. A multi-talented and multi-dimensional “musician’s musician\,” J ones has also written songs such as “Bad Love” with Eric Clapton and “Dreamer” with Ozzy Osbourne\, and produced records for others includi ng Billy Joel’s Storm Front and Van Halen’s 5150.  A Grammy and Go lden Globe-nominated songwriter\, Jones is the winner of the prestigious B ritish Ivor Novello Songwriter Award for “The Flame Still Burns\,” the soundtrack music for the film Still Crazy. In May 2014\, Atlantic Record s Chairman Craig Kallman presented the band with RIAA gold and platinum di gital awards for sixForeigner songs. These awards signify 500\,000 and 1\, 000\,000 downloads of Foreigner hits. That is more individual awards than any other heritage rock band\, and an illustration ofForeigner’s resona nce in the digital era.   In recent years\,Foreigner has headlined severa l Live Nation tours\, rocking across the country and the world with contem poraries and friends. In 2014\,Foreigner headlined The Soundtrack of Summ er US amphitheatre tour with Styx and Don Felder. A hits compilation album of the same name was released to coincide with the tour and immediately h it the Billboard Top 200 chart. In 2015\,Foreigner joined Kid Rock on his “Cheap Date: First Kiss Tour.”  In October 2016\, Foreigner hit a ma jor milestone when the band performed for the very first time at New York ’s iconic Carnegie Hall with a sold-out acoustic show. The concert highl ighted the band’s ongoing relationship with the Grammy Museum’s initia tive to promote music education in our nation’s schools. It included an a cappella contest among New York high schools who competed for a $5\,000 prize donated by the band. The year also brought the release of Foreigner ‘s first ever live acoustic album In Concert: Unplugged\, recorded at a  once-in-a-lifetime private concert hosted by Edsel B. Ford II at the For d Motor Company Conference & Event Center in Detroit\, MI.  The band’s royalties were donated to JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) and the album is available exclusively via Amazon.  The year 2017 marked the celebration of Foreigner‘s 40th anniversary. The Warner Music Group rel eased a double CD set “40\,” which includes 40 songs recorded between 1977 and 2017. The album spent several weeks on the Billboard Top 200 char t and it features two tracks recorded especially for this release\, “Giv e My Life For Love” and a new version of “I Don’t Want To Live Witho ut You.” The album spent nine weeks in the Billboard Top 200 chart.  Th e US anniversary headline tour played 40 shows across the United States wh ere the band was supported by Cheap Trick and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppeli n Experience. In April 2018\, Foreigner topped the Billboard Classic Albu m Charts for the first time with FOREIGNER WITH THE 21ST CENTURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS\, a live recording of Foreigner’s first-ever orchest ral shows in Lucerne\, Switzerland. The band went on to headline orchestra l shows in the US\, Europe\, Australia and New Zealand throughout the year including sold-out appearances at London’s Royal Albert Hall and the ic onic Sydney Opera House. In the summer of 2018\, FOREIGNER starred in a th irty city Live Nation US summer tour with Whitesnake and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening in support.  The excitement continued in 2019 with t he premiere of Juke Box Hero\, the Musical in Canada. Following a series of sold-out workshops in Alberta and Calgary\, the musical premiered in To ronto in February and a Broadway run is on the horizon.  The November 201 9 release of \"Double Vision: Then & Now\" is a DVD/CD package that celebr ates the 40th anniversary of the iconic album.  It features a stunning re union concert that brings together the current and original band members p laying all the hits at the top of their game. Venue: Freeman Arts Pavilion . Presenter: Joshua M. Freeman Foundation. DTSTAMP:20261028T112737Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR