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Ineffable Live and Mateel Community Center present Damian “Jr” Gong Marley, Tuesday, October 3rd at the Mateel, 59 Rusk Lane in Redway. Son of the legendary Jamaican Reggae artist Bob Marley, Damian Marley tours in celebration of his new album Stony Hill released in July.  Kabaka Pyramid and the Bebble Rockers will perform an opening set.  Tickets are available in advance for $41.50.  The doors are at 8pm, the show is all-ages.

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Grammy-winning artist touring in celebration of new album Stony Hill

Ineffable Live and Mateel Community Center present Damian “Jr” Gong Marley, Tuesday, October 3rd at the Mateel, 59 Rusk Lane in Redway. Son of the legendary Jamaican Reggae artist Bob Marley, Grammy-winning artist Damian Marley tours in celebration of his new album Stony Hill . Kabaka Pyramid and the Bebble Rockers will perform an opening set. Tickets are available in advance for $41.50. The doors are at 8pm, the show is all-ages.

Damian “Jr Gong” Marley, once known as the “The Youngest Veteran” by his fellow artists, is now an elder in the game who’s not afraid to speak his mind out of respect for the music and culture he loves—and for the divine spirit of humanity in all of us.   His highly-anticipated 18-track studio album, Stony Hill which just dropped on his birthday, July 21, 2017 – 11 years since his last solo album Welcome To Jamrock. The lyrically profound and largely self-produced Stony Hill maintains the element of hardness from “Jam-Rock” to “Stony,” arriving at a moment when the rhythms of the Caribbean are all over the pop charts—with mostly light-hearted lyrical content. Stony Hill’s timing couldn’t be better.

The album Stony Hill takes its title from the Kingston neighborhood where Damian grew up, a relatively well-to-do residential neighborhood just a short drive away from Half Way Tree, the city crossroads that marks the dividing line between uptown and downtown. The young Gong grew up seeing every side of life. “Some people were critics of a song like Jamrock,” he admits. “They say ‘Well, you didn’t come from the ghetto.’ But it’s not about where you come from. Coming from uptown doesn’t mean you can’t care about people who don’t live where you live. Furthermore, Jamaica is so small that nowhere is far.”

Jr Gong, the youngest son of Reggae legend Bob Marley, garnered his own place in music history when he became the first ever Reggae artist to win a GRAMMY outside of the “Reggae” category, taking home an award for “Best Urban/Alternative” performance for his title single, “Welcome To Jamrock”. The acclaimed 2005 breakthrough album Welcome To Jamrock, also won a GRAMMY for “Best Reggae” Album. Marley has been shaking up stages all over the world for the past few years, first in collaboration with Nas on their Distant Relatives project, and then when he went on to partner with Skrillex for their groundbreaking track “Make It Bun Dem,” which Rolling Stone called “a monster mash up of dubstep and dancehall.” Damian recently toured for the first time ever in Africa – making stops in Kenya, Durban, Johannesburg and Ethiopia; in addition to his European tour, visiting over 10 countries.

 

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