Bob Marley News

The sunshine of summer brings everything from art openings to folk rock, summer camp to films, rock icons to tango all at the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center!  Join us!

Frameless Creative in association with ACT Productions and The Parker Company are proud to debut the lineup for the inaugural Miami Beach Pop Festival, set for November 8-10, 2019. The brand new festival will be held on the shore of South Beach between 5thand 10th streets, adjacent to the beachfront Lummus Park and the iconic Ocean Drive.

Rising conscious reggae/hip-hop band The Late Ones have just released their single “Tell Me Not” 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.

AbunDance Academy of the Arts, an established non-profit arts organization dedicated to offering children and adults affordable dance, theater, and musical instruction at all levels, presents a new work by Karisma Jay, 'Us, AbunDantly!', a theatrical dance performance featuring students and seasoned Broadway artists on the same stage. Inspired by the fan-favorite Cartoon 'Magic School Bus''Us, AbunDantly!', tells the story of an inspirational teacher, Ms. Frizzle, who goes against the grain to educate her students on all of the African, Caribbean, Latino and African-American history missing from their textbooks. While using her classroom as a history portal, Ms. Frizzle takes her students back in time to learn History, the real way. An inspiring story expressed primarily through dance, song and live music, 'Us, AbunDantly!,' is a celebration of Africa and the Americas!

Adirondack Theatre Festival Producing Artistic Director, Chad Rabinovitz, is proud to announce the premiere of Calling All Kates which runs June 14 - 22, 2019 at the Charles R. Wood Theater in Downtown Glens Falls, NY. The leading professional theatre in the Capital Region, ATF is dedicated to new plays and musicals, the season runs June 14 - August 9, 2019 with all performances at the Charles R. Wood Theater.

This fall, artists and audiences from the Washington, D.C. area, the U.S., and around the globe come together at the nation's cultural capital to dance, sing, create, collaborate, listen, learn, talk, share, and celebrate the opening of the REACH, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts's unprecedented new expansion. At a preview event today, May 29, which marks both President Kennedy's 102nd birthday and 100 days until the historic opening, the Kennedy Center unveiled preliminary details of the free 16-day REACH Opening Festival on September 7-22.

Atlantic Records has announced the self-titled debut album from Wilder Woods – also known to many as Bear Rinehart, frontman and co-founder of GRAMMY® Award-nominated NEEDTOBREATHE. WILDER WOODS arrives everywhere on August 9th.

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.