{"id":1981,"date":"2023-01-05T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2023-01-04T23:58:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T23:58:30","slug":"new-year-letter-from-rafe-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/new-year-letter-from-rafe-2023","title":{"rendered":"A New Year Letter from Rafe, Sofar\u2019s Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friends,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently I was on a train, en route to Sofar Birmingham. A young man seated next to me commented on my Sofar beanie. He told me he was an artist, and had played Sofar shows more than 100 times. We chatted for a while, and he continued to share how much Sofar meant to him, along with &#8216;basically the whole planet&#8217; of music lovers he knows. When we finally parted ways with a hug, he said his one wish has been to play music, and anyone who helps with that journey is changing his life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s exactly why we do what we do. Sofar\u2019s here to connect us, to be a place to uplift artists, and immerse ourselves in their beautiful music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We consider ourselves so deeply fortunate to be a community of music lovers, connected from all over. Every corner of the world has something unique that deserves to be heard, whether it\u2019s ambient music on a rooftop in Oslo, or stunning acoustic songs from an art gallery in Mexico City. I&#8217;m not going to rest until we\u2019ve helped create spaces where artists far and wide can be spotlighted in their communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy 2023, to those of you I know, and those I hope to meet. See you at a show somewhere soon. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Recently I was on a train, en route to Sofar Birmingham. A young man seated next to me commented on my Sofar beanie. He told me he was an artist, and had played Sofar shows more than 100 times. We chatted for a while, and he continued to share how much Sofar meant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[97,94,96,95],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-new-year-2023","tag-rafe-offer","tag-sofar-community","tag-sofar-sounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}