{"id":47638,"date":"2012-09-18T01:28:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T01:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=47638"},"modified":"2012-09-18T01:28:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T01:28:55","slug":"multiple-grammy-award-winner-stephen-marley-kicks-off-multi-city-us-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=47638","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Grammy Award winner Stephen Marley kicks off multi-city US Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The eighteen city tour which began Friday at the Jomeokee Festival in Pinnacle, North Carolina includes performance dates in Aspen, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia to name a few,\u00a0 will make a stop at Irving Plaza in New York City on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 for an early show with opening act reggae dancehall artist Spragga Benz before climaxing at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California on Sunday October 7, 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am coming to Irving Plaza once again to deliver righteousness to the people in fine style, so come and check me out,\u201d he declared during a phone interview I conducted together with producer Rosse Taveras on Pacifica Network station WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York City and was also aired on African New Dawn Radio on WRSU, 88.7 FM at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tuesday\u2019s engagement will be his second in the city in less than six months after his sold-out performance at The Best Buy Theater In March with his two siblings Damian Jr. Gong Marley and Julian Marley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Stephen-Marley-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47639\" title=\"Stephen Marley 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Stephen-Marley-1-500x376.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, his critically acclaimed album Revelation part 1: The Root of Life released on Universal\/Ghetto Youths earned the Best Reggae Album Grammy Award.\u00a0 He said he plans to release an eclectic follow-up Revelation Part 2: The Fruit of Life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am a big fan of music in general, I listen to anything that sounds good to me it doesn\u2019t matter where it is from if it sounds good to me then I like it,\u201d he commented responding to a question about the eclectic sound in his music during our recent interview.\u00a0 \u201cAlso, again going back to my legacy if you check my father\u2019s music it has always incorporated other influences;\u00a0 you will hear a blues guitar or a harmonica on one sound and you\u2019ll hear soul or rock style soul on another or just the chords he chose to play is not your typical reggae \u2026 So I\u2019ve grown around the influence of incorporating other influences in music, this is part of us being true to the music that we love and want to make,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stephen has come a long way since his official debut in 1979 with his siblings Ziggy, Cedella and Sharon collectively known as the Melody Makers.\u00a0 As an eight-time Grammy Award winner, Stephen holds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">the record for the most Grammy Awards for Best Reggae Album, with six wins total (three times as a member of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stephen Marley\u2019s catalogue of music is available for purchase on itunes.com.\u00a0 For more information about Stephen Marley please visit:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenmarleymusic.com\">www.stephenmarleymusic.com<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stephenraggamarley\">www.facebook.com\/stephenraggamarley<\/a>; Twitter@StephenMarley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Video link for Stephen Marley\u2019s \u201cMade in Africa\u201d single from Revelation Part 1: The Tree of life: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dkerRz1adDU&amp;feature=related<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stephen Marley\u2019s complete US Tour Guide \u2013 September\/October 2012:<\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">FRI SEPT 14 PINNACLE, NC @JOMEOKEE MUSIC FESTIVAL<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">SAT SEPT 15 BALTIMORE, MD @CHARM CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">MON SEPT 17 BOSTON, MA @PARADISE ROCK CLUB<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">TUE SEPT 18 NEW YORK, NY @IRVING PLAZA<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">WED SEPT 19 PHILADELPHIA, PA @TROCADERO<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">FRI SEPT 21 MINNEAPOLIS, MN @MILL CITY NIGHTS<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">SAT SEPT 22 CHICAGO, IL @VIC THEATRE<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">MON SEPT 24 LAWRENCE, KS @GRANADA THEATRE<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">TUE SEPT 25 DENVER, CO @OGDEN THEATRE<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">WED SEPT 26 FT. COLLINS, CO @AGGIE THEATRE<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">FRI SEPT 28 ASPEN, CO @BELLY UP ASPEN<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">SAT SEPT 29 SALT LAKE CITY, UT @IN THE VENUE<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">MON OCT 1 SEATTLE, WA @ THE SHOWBOX<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">TUE OCT 2 PORTLAND, OR @ ROSELAND THEATRE<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">WED OCT 3 REDWAY, CA @MATEEL COMMUNITY CENTER<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">THUR OCT 4 SAN FRANCISCO, CA @THE FILLMORE<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">SAT OCT 6 SOLANA BEACH, CA @BELLY UP TAVERN<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">SUN OCT 7 WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA @HOUSE OF BLUES<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Tour dates are subject to change)<\/p>\n<p><em>By Dennis Kabatto<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eighteen city tour which began Friday at the Jomeokee Festival in Pinnacle, North Carolina includes performance dates in Aspen, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1191,1],"tags":[13431],"class_list":["post-47638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-uncategorized","tag-stephen-marley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}