Jesse Ruben

Jesse Ruben returns to StageOne for the release of his second album The Ones That Matter. Ruben’s expansive and deeply compassionate point of view has resonated strongly with an ever-growing audience, whom the performer has cultivated with virtually nonstop touring and persistent online networking; as a result, he’s sold some 5,000 copies of his debut album, Aiming for Honesty on his own. Adding full-band accompaniment to his lush, soulful pop-rock, Ruben also stretches impressively as a writer on The Ones That Matter, achieving a near-novelistic sense of character and setting on finely hewn tracks like A Lack of Armor,Bleeker and Sixth, and Unbreakable.