The Innocence Mission with Matt Santry at Ardmore Music Hall ** SOLD OUT ** Friday, May 23, 2025 Seated Doors: 6:45 PM | GA Doors: 7:15 PM | Show: 8:00 PM 21+ Unless with a Parent or Legal Guardian About The Venue Food, Concessions + Drink Menus | Venue FAQ | Contact Info About The Innocence Mission Website | Facebook | Instagram | X (Twitter) | YouTube | Spotify The first studio album from the innocence mission in four years, Midwinter Swimmers sounds immediately like an old friend. At the same time, it’s a new kind of adventure for the beloved Pennsylvania band of high school friends Karen Peris, Don Peris, and Mike Bitts, having both an expansive, cinematic quality and the strange, lo-fi beauty of a newly discovered vintage folk record. The new album has had an extremely warm reception from journalists and listeners around the world. NPR Music called it “ Really, really highly recommended.” “This is what beautiful was meant to sound to like,” Pitchfork wrote. Brooklyn Vegan named it one of the best albums of 2024, adding: “Karen Peris’ songwriting and voice has the uncanny ability to tap into your memory palace, setting free feelings you didn’t know you had, memories that may not even be yours.” “It’s like it was recorded at Western Electric in the 60’s, and makes me think of Vashti Bunyan or Sibylle Baier, but also has these emotional bursts of orchestration and drums and harmony coming in - the sound of the innocence mission never stops getting richer”, writes one early listener and friend. About Matt Santry Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify Matt Santry wants you to know that someone’s been there too. His aim as a singer songwriter is to write songs that welcome you into an experience he calls “heart driven pop”. A line from one of Matt’s newest songs sums up his mission as a songwriter... “When your troubles keep you reaching, but you don’t know what you need Let me be your change of scene” But Matt didn’t always write songs. He began his career as a social worker. While working with children with Autism, he started using music in an intuitive way. “Whether we’d bang on a drum or sing a song or I would just play the guitar, music was part of every day.” Then one moment changed the way Matt looked at music. His client, who rarely used words to communicate, sang an entire Christmas song, line for line, by himself. In awe of this interaction, Matt was inspired to begin writing his own songs. 10 years later, Matt continues to search for that human connection through his own music. His journey has taken him across the country performing at over 100 colleges, on festivals bills with the acts like The Lumineers and Counting Crows, sharing stages with Delta Rae, Brent Young to name a few. You may have heard Matt’s voice before and not realized it. Besides performing his own songs, his voice has been featured in numerous national ad campaigns, from a singing cowboy in a Febreze commercial to backing Adam Levine and Blake Shelton in The Voice, Season 14 “Porch Commercial” which debuted on Super Bowl LLI. Join Ardmore Music Club | Private Events | AMH Merch