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This is the year of Singles. We’ve released three new songs this year. All songs feature the tender gentle sounds of Angie. A hero of feminity, a songwriter with the prowess of a cloud floating in the sky as if she’s always been there and knows exactly what sound should feels like.

All Music was recorded and produced with Joel Noftle. He has be instrumental in producing, recording, tracking and composing this music in his studio. as a day job, he is his School District’s paramount music teacher, with staff and admin asking weekly for him to come teach at their schools. He’s the expert we all want to have in our corner, and i’m grateful he agreed to take on this project.

This new album still pending release but named “Handle Was My Name” is a full of full production music, with session players, Will McCarty and Jason Noftle,

Last Time Around is a acoustic vibing song about the missing of a lover, the day before they arrive. Written at the door steps of family home in Penticton, BC, this song sings the love of my heart to that of my wife.

Confident Love is sweet duet of Angie and I, along with trio of guitars and other full live instruments, along with shakers and noise makers. This song gets it’s name from the mountains of Kootney National Park in British Columbia. While hiking and camping at Flow Lake at the base of the Rock Wall, these lyrics came to my mind and this song was born.

Cold Hard Cash was written long before my 6 child came into our lives. My sister has struggled with many things in her life, including all the things that promote a life less desired on the Downtown East Side of Vancouver. When i wrote this song, she had one daughter. That daughter moved in with family at 9 years old, is now married and graduated with a bachelors from UBC in linguistics and moving onto finishing her Masters in Social Work. My sisters youngest daughter, is now my daughter, and lives in our home. This song gets its name from that life that victimizes anyone that touches it. Cold Hard Cash was written for those daughters that I love, and you should love too.

Finally we are starting to see some progress, well to hear progress at least! The first single we are releasing from our album, is called Last Time Around.

It is a emotive love song that was written for Angie while I was away from her. I was sitting on a porch and had my guitar in my lap, and a person walked by the fence in front of me. I went to stand up because i thought it was Angie! I sat down and strummed three chords, F, Am, and G, and sand the words “I saw you there”.

My friend and band mate Chris helped work on the chorus and harmonies, with the final singing done by Angie herself for the win. Below is the final youtube link for free listening, and this tune is available on all platforms. please enjoy and let me know what you think!

Friends, Fans, Fam, my best wishes are that you are fantastic. If you are fantastic, then I know you are in the right head space.

Anything less that outstanding won’t do.

The past few pandemic years have been challenging to make music for me on a personal level. Keeping the financial status quo has been hard, and many other things have joined our focus. How ever for the past 2 years exactly, with my most loving wife, and extended family, we’ve been creating new music. Vocally speaking, this music is the best we’ve ever created. Angie together with myself on vocals, have created such epic sound scape, that I think it’s the best music we’ve ever created.

I’m excited and want you to know, that soon more music is coming. Jan 2024 will hold our glory.

Look for the brighter golden lining to all your dark clouds, and you’ll forever find the riches you seek.

Love JP

Covid sucks, and deserves to die a horrible death! We released another Album during COVID and didn’t tour, didn’t get pysched, did do shows, didn’t do anything we wanted to, but that’s ok. because the music got out and that’s what we love. So to get fully stoked on life we are making more music. here is a link to the old ones however.

Move On – YouTube

‎My Ledge Still Waits – EP by Jared and the Social Worker on Apple Music

Jared and the Social Worker – Topic – YouTube

Crew, We have a new Album EP released today! It’s title is Parade on Fire, it’s been a long time coming, and full of all the tunes you’ve heard us play in the last 3 years. funky, rock ballads of fun and excitement, mixed with a ton of somber contemplation and angst! Enjoy and find us somewhere on social media and let us know what you think of it!

https://LINKtr.ee/jatsworker – This is the easiest method to find our music!

Meeting another a pedophile?

My children meeting a pedophile?
Becoming a wife beater?
Becoming a bad husband?
Becoming a terrible person?
Becoming a savage?
Losing my mind?
Losing my family and all that I love because of the lack of money?
Losing my friends?
Breaking Angie’s heart?
Destroying my faith?
Manipulating others directly?
Coersion?

Being a bad friend?
Hurting others?
Failing at fatherhood?
Failing at husbandom?
Not learning anything from your life?
Crying for no reason?
Being weak?
Being a small child?
Being a violated boy who let a man rape him?
Not confronting your fears?
Being fake?
Not saving people?
Not helping people?

These are my fears.

These are the fears in the deepest pit of my soul. I cried tonight writing them. I’m not sure why. I say that but I know why. Because it makes me feel better to know that if I can see my darkest fears ahead of me, that I can do everything I can to avoid them.

This is how I deal with my history of pain and abuse and violence and fear. I confront them and share them, so that I never feel alone with them.

Some people are born for competion. From day one they compete around everything around them.

I have never been this way and understanding it is foreign to me, like another language or breathing under water, it’s unatural.

In my simple understanding, I believe I was born to collaborate. Meaning working with others. One on one to help others, and in helping them, I am also helped. Sharing my struggles with others appropriately has been a goal. Not competing, but collaborating. Not working against but working with.

I think this is what I’m born to do. Anything outside this is foreign to me.

I work with people because I love people.

Please share with me what your darkest fears are.

We have this new lovely website, and we have a number of lovely things happening. Please come visit us and help us enjoy even more, what we do.
Like if you can, Share if you can’t!

Love Jared

PS Here is our Cover of Post Malone – I Fall Apart

It’s Pouring Out

http://ufvcascade.ca/sippchaiopenmic/

A little UFV Cascade love for Jared and the Social Worker. Sippchai Cafe, a great place to sit and chill, sit and talk, or even just sit with a hot or cold drink in hand. I enjoyed playing a few songs for these guys it was an embracing and engaging crowd. – -Jared

By Harvin Bathal

Once a month, one of Abbotsford’s finest cafés hosts an open-mic night where local artists with differing levels of experience open themselves up in front of a small crowd of strangers and either sink or swim. At September 23’s open-mic night there was definitely far more swimming than sinking.

The event was scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m., but the evening began slowly, with the first wave of performers starting to trickle in towards the latter half of the hour. As the clock struck 8:00 p.m., host Saint Soldier warmed up the attendees for the first performer, who goes by the name of Jared, from the band Jared and the Social Worker.

Out of the three songs he performed, a cover ofPoison Oak by Bright Eyes was by far the best. It was bone chilling and emotional, and one could feel the pain echoing through his voice and words.

Throughout the night, the live DJ played an excellent variety of songs, ranging from ‘90s hip-hop to ‘00s R&B, from house to EDM, as well as a few indie-rock songs. He did his job well and tied the event together when artists were not performing.
Though the night began serious, there were many lighter performances such as an original song on the ukulele, and an acoustic version of The Weeknd’s Can’t Feel My Face, where the artist sung a slower version of the song that was tied together by his mature and heavy voice.

Besides the music itself, the best part of the performances were when the artists would interact with the crowd. A singer who goes by the name Saveena was a prime example of that. She was a minute into her performance of Stay by Rihanna, and then threw a curveball by saying that “she wasn’t feeling it” as she was off beat. The song began again and she certainly delivered, with her performances of Jar of Heartsby Christina Perri and Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen showcasing her powerful voice and presence.

A case in which an artist sank was a cover of a Pentatonix song Light the Hallways. He had a good voice but he was unprepared and it was clear he needed more practice. However, that is the beauty in open-mic nights. People only gain confidence and experience through performing in front of live audiences, but more importantly, they are a chance for the community to get together and showcase local talent. It is a definite boost for people both different and alike to come together in one place and do what they love: perform.

There were a range of different performances of songs such as a raspy cover of Jeremiah’sBirthday Sex, and an original Hindi song Mahiya, which the artist delivered with a beautiful and confident voice.

Open-mic nights are not just for singers, as there were a few poets who got the crowd going as well. One of them performed satirical takes on tramp stamps and flamenco dancers, which the crowd thought were a delight. Another performed a series of poems detailing the racism against people in their own country, in particular Indians in Canada, and the police shootings of unarmed African Americans in the United States. Her poems were powerful, evocative, and truthful, yet harsh.

SippChai Café’s open-mic Friday was the first open-mic night I have ever experienced, and it is safe to say it will not be my last. If you’re looking for a good time, definitely go to SippChai next month (or any other time really; their selection of teas is to die for) and be a part of the community.