& Acoustic Tribute by

*Stephen Marley*

to his father

July 25, 2013- 7:00 P.M

Door open @ 6:30

The Queen Theater, Wilmington, Delaware

This historic event in a city Bob once called home, will feature Stephen Marley, who not only spent the early years of his life here, but was also born in our city! Stephen will perform a live acoustic tribute to his father prior to the Marley premiere.

This is a VIP event with very limited seating. Few VIP tickets for a meet and greet session with Stephen will be the highlight of this evening. 

$25 for Stephen’s performance and the movie

$50 for VIP Meet and Greet 

Movie Trailer

Bob Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best. From Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (One Day In September, The Last King of Scotland) comes the story of a towering figure of musical history, whose music and message has transcended different cultures, languages and creeds to resonate around the world today as powerfully as when he was alive.

Official Site

www.BobMarley.com

www.BobMarlyMovie.com

With the release of his landmark CD “Where There Is Life” in 1995, Luciano emerged as one of the most important reggae singers in decades and the greatest hope for roots reggae’s survival in the digital dancehall era. Since that much acclaimed release, Luciano’s music has been consistently praised for imparting sentiments of spiritual salvation, Rastafarian edification and African repatriation.

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Formed officially in the spring of 1993, Jah Works have been blazing up the live music scene ever since. With an average of 200 plus shows a year they have covered a lot of ground in their time together. Though best known on the East Coast, Jah Works has played throughout the US as well as internationally in Jamaica, Canada, Holland, the South Pacific, and the Middle East. The band is honored to have taken part in Armed Forces Entertainment which provides shows for troops stationed abroad. They also recently performed in Washington DC for the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

With an independent mindset and a strong work ethic, the band has written and produced 8 albums to date. Through the help of a dedicated fan base, the internet, and their relentless tour schedule, they have sold over 100,000 records. The band’s llatest release is Rewind (2009). The album was featured on the front page of Itunes Reggae for 8 weeks.

Known for their high energy, party style atmosphere, Jah Works’ live shows appeal to both reggae and non reggae listeners alike. Comfortable in any environment, the band has played numerous music festivals, large and small venues, colleges, and private parties. They have been fortunate to share the stage with some notable international acts including Buju Banton, Toots and the Maytals, Culture, Burning Spear, UB40, and Damian Marley , as well as with their brothers in arms, John Browns Body and SOJA. When not on tour Jah Works can be found working on new material at their home studio in Baltimore.

The original inspiration for the name Jah Works came from a song title by the legendary 70′s reggae group The Gladiators. There is a broad yet simple meaning in those two words. To say aloud is to recognize the higher power behind all things seen and unseen. As Jamaican artist Terror Fabulous sings in his song of the same name, “Jah Works when you see the sun shine, Jah Works rule over all.” Jah Works is the energy that brought the band together and the force that drives them today.

Jah Works is:

Kevin Gorman-guitar
Mike Hamilton-bass
Jon Pang-drums
Natty Roc-sax and vocals
Brian Gorman-keys

19 YEAR HISTORY!

Since 1994, The Peoples’ Festival & Tribute to Bob Marley has welcomed more than 100,000 families from around the country in unity and one love to the first place outside of Jamaica that the Hon. Robert Nesta Marley ever called home: Wilmington Delaware. It is where his family resided, worked and attended school as Bob Marley rose to world stardom with his message of peace, unity and “One Love”. At the request of his (now late) Mother Cedella Marley Booker, the Tribute to Bob Marley took root just blocks from where the home he bought her still stands.

Over the last two decades, Richie Havens, KRS 1, Damien “Junior Gong” Marley, Stephen Marley, Kymani, Ziggy, Julian Marley, Kinto Sol and Morgan Heritage are just a few among the global superstars and Grammy Award winning artists who have graced our stage. This year the momentum continues with world-renowned reggae artist Luciano. The event approaches its monumental 20th anniversary just over a year from now!

OUR PURPOSE

The 19th Annual Peoples Festival 4PEACE & Tribute to Bob Marley is presented by Delaware non-profit, One Village Alliance to foster peace, love and unity through music and the arts in the spirit of the Hon. Robert Nesta Marley, OM. The event unites a collaboration of artists, agencies and businesses united for peace and unity throughout Wilmington. Lead partners include: World Cafe Live at the Queen; KISS 101.7; Spark Magazine.

PEACE PAVILION

New at this year’s Peoples Festival 4PEACE & Tribute to Bob Marley, the Peace Pavilion brings a united front of organizations that offer services to parents, youth and families together and empower festival-goers with information and opportunities to combat violence, impact communities through volunteerism and keep youth engaged in positive activities. The Peace Pavilion is a lifeline to bring support and awareness to individuals who are seeking help for troubled situations and don’t know where to turn.

A Call to Action among agency partners, businesses and schools is in full effect! A city-wide effort to link a Peace Chain for Change is now underway with over 50 locations to design your “Peace Link” with a message of love and unity… The chain will connect the city from Bob Marley’s family home on 24th and Tatnall Streets to the Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday July 27th for a Genius World Record opening of the 19th Annual Peoples Festival 4PEACE & Tribute to Bob Marley!

FESTIVAL GROUNDS

The beautiful Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park and Delaware River (nestled between the Amtrak Train Station and Wilmington Bus Depot) create a perfectly accessible venue for this family event. Youth of all ages enjoy arts, literature, drumming, spoken word, face painting and activities at our famed Children’s Village. Festival goers cool off and relax in our Holistic Wellness Pavilion and Bamboo Rain Hut with stress relief and rejuvenation massage therapy, information and products. And our International Market Place & Food Court still remain the most highly anticipated destinations for art, merchandise and food from around the world! This year’s weekend long event schedule includes a film screening of “Marley, VIP Reception and Peace Walk.

2 STAGES FEATURING LIVE INTERNATIONAL & LOCAL MUSIC!

ONE LOVE STAGE & UPRISING STAGE

LUCIANO

JAH WORKS

SPOKEY SPEAKY

I-KRONIC

Supporters & Sponsors of the 19th Annual Peoples Festival 4PEACE & Tribute to Bob Marley are proud to continue the Hon. Robert Nesta Marley’s legacy of peace and one love that is celebrated around the world in a place his family still calls home: Wilmington Delaware!

 1966: Moved to Wilmington, Delaware with his family.

 1976: Band of the Year (Rolling Stone).

 1978: Awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations.

 1981: Awarded Jamaica’s third highest honour, the Jamaican Order of Merit.

 1994: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

 1994: 1st Annual Peoples Festival: Tribute to Bob Marley celebrates “One Love” legacy.

 1999: Album of the Century for Exodus by Time Magazine.

 2001: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 2001: Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

 2004: Rolling Stone ranked him No.11 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

 “One Love” named song of the millennium by BBC.

 Voted as one of the greatest lyricists of all time by a BBC poll.

 2006: A blue plaque was unveiled at his first UK residence in Ridgmount Gardens, London, dedicated to him by Nubian Jak community trust and supported by Her Majesty’s Foreign Office.

 2010: Catch a Fire inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame

We could not do it without your support!

A COLLABORATIVE CALL TO ACTION: A CITY-WIDE PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE

One Village Alliance, World Cafe Live at the Queen, KISS 101.7 and Spark Magazine join the 19th Annual Peoples Festival 4PEACE & Tribute to Bob Marley to invite you to join us in a unified call to action and city-wide partnership for peace.

Raise Money through a collaborative fundraising effort.

Raise Awareness to your programs and services.

Raise the Expectation of Wilmington as a thriving, beautiful and peaceful “place to be somebody”!

To call for peace and unity among our youth, in our streets and throughout our city, we must first unite as leaders. Many are already vested. Thousands will gather. We excitedly await your agency’s involvement…

Join our Fundraising: ‘Links 4PEACE’

How would you like to partner with us to create a ‘Chain 4PEACE’ which will stretch from one side of Wilmington to the other with a call to ACTION! And will also allow a lucky donor or a friend of your agency to be in a drawing for a very special grand prize drawing. This year, Peoples Festival 4PEACE & Tribute to Bob Marley ‘Links 4PEACE’ initiative will be done in collaboration with agency partners in a joint effort to raise funds to support various charitable causes throughout the City of Wilmington. In the past, single organizations including Pacem en Terrace, the Food Bank of Delaware and Read Across Jamaica have collaborated with the festival. A charitable gift of 50% of the ‘Links 4PEACE’ revenue will be made to the participating agency! (Call for full details.)

Exhibit in our Peace Pavilion.

New at this year’s Peoples Festival 4PEACE & Tribute to Bob Marley, the Peace Pavilion offers a lifeline to bring support and awareness to individuals who are seeking help for troubled situations and don’t know where to turn. The pavilion also houses our highly anticipated Children’s Village making it a concentrated center for agencies to engage with youth and families, present on your agency from the stage and even host an activity. Connect with families. Promote your programs and services. Recruit Mentors/Volunteers.

Become a Peace Link Site.

A city-wide effort to link a Peace Chain for Change is now underway. Become one of more than 50 locations where youth and adults can design a “Peace Link” with a message of love and unity… The chain will connect the city from Bob Marley’s family home on 24th and Tatnall Streets to the Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park for a Genius World Record opening of the 19th Annual Peoples Festival 4PEACE & Tribute to Bob Marley!

We look forward to your participation as we work to re-image a resilient, beautiful Wilmington through this

City-wide Partnership for Peace!

Greetings Beloved,

I greet you in the name of Jah Rastafari, ever living ever faithful, ever true SelasiI the First! Jah Rastafari!

Bob Marley was a prophet — he came with truth, wisdom and over-standing which revealed his righteousness. I bear witness.

He was obedient and lived the life he sang about, everyday.

The Early Years

Born in Jamaica on February 6, 1944 he began to sing at an early age, inspired by his life experiences and his rough surroundings. During his teenage years his mother, Momma ‘B’, came to live in Wilmington, Delaware. Bob visited her here on several occasions. Eventually, he bought the house next door to his mother on Tatnall Street. Bob and Rita lived there with their children Ziggy, Cedella, and Steven also Stephanie and Sharon. Wilmington, Delaware was Bob’s first American home. Before the rest of the world knew him, Bob worked, lived, played and wrote hit songs right here in our city. We are so thankful.

It was here that Ibis, a young African-American man met Rita and through her, her husband Bob Marley, his mother and their children in 1969. There are other friends, family and lots of fans who were fortunate to have met him, others worked side by side with him or who simply enjoyed watching him as he played soccer, played his music and lived life in our city. Some who were very young may have attended school with his children. I’ve heard some say that Bob played free for the noontime concerts in city parks back in the day!

Ibis and Bob developed a friendship, and in those early years, they would spend hours playing music in Mom’s basement. Playing the congas, Ibis would rehearse with Bob on songs like ‘Is this Love’ in those jamming sessions. In later years he would travel with Bob to NYC, Philly and other cities as Bob moved about doing interviews, jamming in local studios or just hanging out. Ibis traveled with Bob to his homeland, Jamaica, in late 1969. He tells wonderful stories of this trip, meeting Bob’s friends Bunny and Peter and hanging out, watching them play soccer, playing music and eating great island foods!

Before achieving world known status, Bob worked for two corporate American icons in Delaware; DuPont in Wilmington, and Chrysler in Newark. His experience at Chrysler as a forklift operator inspired the song ‘Night Shift.’

The Later Years

I will never forget the night I met Bob. I had met Momma ‘B’ briefly during my first visit to the East Coast with Ibis in the fall of 1974. We were living in L.A. in 1975 when one Friday night in July, while chillin’ at Santa Monica Beach, we heard that Bob Marley and The Wailers were performing at the Roxy! Ibis was so excited, but the show was about to start! Ibis jumped in our friend’s motor home and high-tailed it to the Sunset Strip in Hollywood; it was incredible! The marquee said ‘sold out concert’ but the line was still wrapped around the building for one full block! Ibis found his way back stage where sure enough, it was Bob! It was a happy reunion of friends. The Wailers were doing a show each night and two on Saturday and they were all sold out! We had a great concentrated dose of Bob Marley and The Wailers’ live music Friday, Saturday and Sunday! What an introduction! They stayed a few days longer; Ibis hung out with Bob and the band, I took Rita and Judy shopping, they visited our shop in L.A., and we had a fabulous few days spending time with our friends! …..it was an awesome weekend that would impact my life forever! ….instantly I connected with this Rastaman Vibration!

Our friends went on to continue the Natty Dread tour. Ibis and I had our first daughter the following month. We moved to Virginia and then in 1977 Ibis moved our family from Virginia (where we had had our second little girl), to Wilmington, DE on an invitation from Rita Marley. We moved into a room in Bob’s home for several months before a small electrical fire forced us to move. During the time spent here we developed a very close and loving relationship with Momma ‘B’ and the family. Near the end of that year Bob moved his mother and her children to Miami after Mr. Booker passed away leaving Momma ‘B’ alone during the harsh winter — Bob did not want her to struggle like that! Mom continued to live in her beautiful home in Miami until her going home in April of 2008.

Birth of The Peoples’ Festival

In 1994 Momma ‘B’ came north to visit and stayed in our home in Salem, NJ for two weeks. During this time I had the inspiration to have a formal ‘Coronation Ceremony’ for Mom, who was truly a Queen. The planning began the day after she arrived, by the second weekend of her stay several close friends had come together to take care of the details of this celebration which was held at our home in Quinton, NJ.

It was a wonderful ceremony; over 100 close family and friends attended. We had food, drinks and live music. Momma’s nephew, Jimmy, and his three sisters sang, the children danced to one of Momma’s favorite folk songs, “Young Girl in the Rain.” We prepared a throne, had fresh flowers, a tiara and a wand. That morning Sisters Ityola and Sahara pampered her and dressed her in fine purple and white fabric (which they had tailor made for her within the time since her arrival). She was picked-up and driven to our farm in Quinton where everybody was waiting. This was all a surprise to her! It was fabulous — she was so touched and expressed great gratitude and wore her crown so elegantly.

It was on this day in the summer of 1994 that The Peoples’ Festival was conceived. Momma ‘B’ made the announcement saying, “The next time I see you all will be in Wilmington, where Ibis and Genny will be having a Tribute to Bob, next year!” She got my attention… ”Which Genny?” I asked. “Who else?” was her response as she gave me that motherly look, that says, “Don’t act like you don’t know.”

That was it. Even thought her coronation celebration was the largest party I had ever organized, I knew that we would be hosting a Tribute to Bob Marley the following year.

The Festival Experience

The First Annual Tribute to Bob Marley was born at Frawley Stadium on August 4, 1995 to Jah Rastafari be the Glory! 22 bands performed at that historic event. Richie Havens, Damian Marley, Mutabaruka, Cindy Breakspear, Momma Booker, and a host of local and national acts came to bless our two stages that first year. Scheduled to go from noon to 7 p.m. the festival had a ‘Woodstock’ kind of ending when Richie Havens finally took the stage at 12:30 a.m. saying, “This is so reminiscent of Woodstock!” to which the crowd roared and stayed to the very last note shouting and chanting. It was a great time!

The peoples’ Festival has brought dozens of international, national, regional and local bands to Wilmington in our years since that day: Culture, The Abyssinians, Morgan Heritage, Toots and The Maytals, Justin Hines, Israel Vibrations, The Meditations, Inner Vision, KRS1, Richie Havens, Mutabarukah, The Wailers, Ziggy Marley, Stephen Marley, Damian Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, Julian Marley, Momma ‘B’, The Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble, and many, many more. To Jah Rastafari be the Glory!

Every Peoples’ Festival has been organized by a team of volunteers; on the day of the festival there are over fifty people who give of their time, energy and talents to make each year a success. We have been blessed with the support of local businesses and organizations; The City of Wilmington Parks and Recreation Department, Kiss 101.7 F.M., The Double Tree Hotel Downtown, Air Jamaica, and NKS Distributors are just a few who have been with, supporting our effort for several years.

We have worked with dozens of non-profits using the festival as a place to meet and greet people as we share the mission of their work: Pacem in Terris, Amnesty International, The Sierra Club, The Food Bank of Delaware, Ministry of Caring, The Book Mobile, H.E.A.L. Delaware, Guerilla Republic, The FreePlay Foundation, Christina Cultural Art Center and many more.

World Music, Inc. has a mission to foster and promote cultural diversity through music, the arts and educational programs for the purpose of inspiring Unity in our Communities as we were inspired by our beloved friend and Brother, The Honorable Robert Nesta Marley, O. M. (AKA; Bob Marley). We do this by producing events that bring our community together to celebrate life in Unity and One Love not only in Wilmington, but through our Latin Festival in South Jersey in September which draws over 5,000 people for a weekend celebration of liberation. Our Cultural Extravaganza educates youth on diversity through music and art in Wilmington, and a host of smaller community event throughout the region.

We give thanks for all those who have lent their time, energy, gifts and talents to making this vision a reality. To Jah Rastafari be the Glory! Selah.

I am so grateful, always, for the opportunity this event has given me to feel all the love that people have for Bob. It has been an honor and a privilege for me, Ibis and our children to have been entrusted with this great gift. We could not do it without YOU The People! Thank you so much for your continued support, may Jah Rastafari continually keep, guide and portect I and I! Selah.

Best,

Genny Pitts

Bob and his Goddaughter, Udochi in Wilmington, Delaware.