{UAH} A Celebration of Bob Marley
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Join us forty years on at the Tabernacle for a Bob Marley tribute evening, woven together – from the words of those who knew him best – by Roger Steffens, whose indispensable oral history, So Much Things to Say, appears in July.
In conversation with Linton Kwesi Johnson – known and revered as the world's first reggae poet – Steffens will reveal extraordinary new details, and dispel myths about the man, from the childhood abandonment, the formative years in Trench Town, the meteoric rise to international fame, the assassination attempt, and to ultimately his premature death jogging in New York.
As are the emotional dramas of Bob Marley's brief life, and his unwavering commitment to the message of Rastafari, which combined to create the dazzling and idiosyncratic destiny of Bob Marley.
All true gospels are shaped by the accounts of eyewitnesses, and 'If Bob Marley is Jesus in these times, Roger Steffens is St Peter' (Carlos Santana). Come along for the definitive Reggae Night on 4th September…
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