Bob Marley News

Combining music and humour, THAT 80'S SHOW! takes patrons back to the 80's in all its glory.

Midem, the home of the global music community, proudly presents one of the new Wagram Stories' projects: the international premiere screening of Inna De Yard, and a live show featuring the film's artists, at this year's conference, in Cannes, June 4-7.

Rising conscious reggae/hip-hop band The Late Ones are set to release their upcoming single “Tell Me Not” on Friday, May 24th via tastemaker label Easy Star Records. The band has been bubbling on the US reggae scene for a few years, while they put together an album's worth of material to release. Working closely with the Easy Star Records team over the past year, the group is finally ready to begin releasing material, starting with this single. A full album is due later this year.

Not all Royer-Greaves School for Blind students and adults can walk, but they can all dance. And dance, sing, and drum they will at a special May 18 public performance, to be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the school auditorium at 118 S. Valley Road in Paoli, PA.

Netflix has ordered Black Excellence, their first series project with Kenya Barris with Barris and Rashida Jones set to star.

It is fitting that in the days leading up to the release of Jesse Royal's new single “LionOrder,” featuring Protoje, via reggae label Easy Star Records, he has been holed up in Los Angeles writing songs for his next album, in between another tireless run of live shows. In 2017, Jesse followed an immensely successful early single with an album (Lily of Da Valley) that debuted at number one on the Billboard Reggae Chart, but he quickly learned that there can be no rest when building a career that will last. So he played countless shows to develop his live following, in America especially, and now serves notice to the world with this track release that the next part of his musical journey has officially begun. The first song from his as-yet-unnamed, impending sophomore album, “LionOrder” taps Protoje, fresh off his GRAMMY Nomination for Best Reggae Album last year, to deliver positive and constructive messages of watching the company we keep, identifying the strength of unity in our communities, and the power to transform oneself and thus the world around us. Produced by Sean Alaric (Koffee, Toian) & Jason Panton (Wrd Sound Pwr), the riddim is both uplifting and militant - setting the tone perfectly for Jesse Royal and Protoje to educate and entertain together.  

From late June through the end of August, Westbury-based NEFCU, in coordination with hospitality provider Centerplate and the Rick Eberle Agency/GNR Events, will present a full slate of music concerts, line dancing performances and special children's music and movie events to be held under the famed bandshell at Field 4 on the Jones Beach Boardwalk.

Birdland will kick-off their great week of programming with Curtis Stigers with The Birdland Big Band, Konrad Paszkudzki and Pasquale Grasso, Dr. Monty Alexander, and more!

It's time for the sweet sounds of music during the month of May at the Staten Island Children's Museum!

The North Carolina Black Repertory Company (NC Black Rep) is excited to announce new programming at the 2019 National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) titled Shakespeare at Sunset. In collaboration with The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), NC Black Rep will produce Twelfth Night, or What You Will at the Winston Square Park Amphitheatre in downtown Winston-Salem.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents Beres Hammond on Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.

British Jamaican roots-reggae GRAMMY nominated crooner, Julian Marley announces his upcoming eleven-date East Coast tour, in support of his fourth and latest album, 'As I Am.' Julian, the son of the late Bob Marley is widely known as a master multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer and overall genre-bending singer-songwriter.

Grammy Award-winning band Gipsy Kings, featuring Nicolas Reyes & Tonino Baliardo, are set to perform two shows in the New York/New Jersey area this fall.  The band will perform at the Beacon Theatre on Saturday, September 14 at 8:00PM, taking audiences back to the south of France with flamenco guitars and booming Spanish vocals.  Tickets are $80, $90 and $130 (plus applicable fees) and available through Ticketmaster.com or 866-858-0008.

Black Markets Matter is an unapologetic look into the realities facing Humboldt County, California, the birthplace of American weed culture. When Prop 64 passed in 2016, life was turned upside down for the growers and family farms in the infamous Emerald Triangle. The local economy took a brutal hit.

Birdland has announced its upcoming May program!

This week, theatre legend Ben Verseen stopped in at the WBGO studio for a performance of 'What A Wonderful World'. Check out video of the song below!

Zak Starkey and Sharna 'Sshh' Liguz, have announced the creation of a new reggae record label, Trojan Jamaica, and a groundbreaking compilation, RED, GOLD, GREEN & BLUE, the details of which will be revealed soon. Today's announcement is heralded by the release of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 'I Put A Spell On You' performed by Mykal Rose feat. Sly & Robbie, available Friday, March 29 for streaming and download; the track - produced by the legendary Youth (U2, Paul McCartney, The Verve), at Trojan Jamaica Studios in Ocho Rios and featuring a stellar solo from Jamaican guitar great Ernest Ranglin - is accompanied by a new companion visual, streaming now following its exclusive premiere via Rolling Stone.

Back after a sold out performance in January… "Shallow," "Born This Way," "Edge of Glory," "You & I," "Million Reasons" - the music newly minted Oscar award-winning singer/songwriter and pop culture icon, Lady Gaga, comes back to Feinstein's/54 Below for one night only! Join over a dozen Broadway performers and rising starts as we celebrate the decade long careers of one of this generation's most trailblazing artists: Lady Gaga.

After the success of 60! Decada de Arromba - Musical Doc., comes the turn of 70? Decada do Divino Maravilhoso - Musical Doc, once again signed by Frederico Reder and Marcos Nauer, continuing the documentary musical retrospective format and taking to the stage important moments of politics, fashion, behavior, sports and arts in the 1970s.

Meet Ziggy, a shy boy who would rather stay at home and watch television than explore the island of Jamaica. Over the course of his onstage journey, with some help from his friend Nansi, he realizes that the real adventures can be found outside, amid the birds and jungles and beaches. Their worldly adventure is enlivened by the fantastic songs of renowned Reggae artist, Bob Marley.