Island life was a theme of Saturday’s eighth annual HopSauce Festival at Veterans Memorial Park in Beach Haven, and local reggae-fusion band The Danksters purveyed the message musically in their 45-minute set. They were the second act in the day’s lineup and played all originals. The crowd was drawn in and mesmerized by their jams – with great dank beers and hot sauce comes great dank music.

The Danksters began serendipitously with a random meeting on the beach, bass player Taylor Stokes recalled.