Mark Marley’s 80th Birthday concert of Birmingham Rega – BBC.com

A special concert celebrating the history of Birmingham’s Regga is to be held on Bob Marley’s 80th birthday.

Ther Reggae Origins Concert They will see Basil Gabbidon, and the musicians at Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) are joining their efforts on Thursday night in the city mayoralty.

Legendary Regge Marley singer He died of cancer at the age of 36 on May 11, 1981.

Gabbidon, the founder of the Handsworth Band Pulse band, said the musician “will probably be as surprised as we are” that the genre is growing and is still going strong.

“It’s amazing how it is just spreading all over the world,” he told Regga’s scene.

“When you hear Bob Marley’s music, she has always been there.”

The classic and reggae fusion concert will see strings and a complete group performing brand new arrangements of songs from the stage of Regga Birmingham, along with some of the biggest hits of Bob Marley.

Gabbidon said he initially turned to BCMG a few years ago to try and collect the project, but at that time there was no funding for it.

“This is something I look forward to doing,” he told the concert.

“I love fusion and I think this is something that needs to be placed that all the music is basically a music.”

Roots Reggae Band Steel Pulse was established in 1975 by school friends attending a Handsworth Wood boys school.

The band became the first non-Jamaic act to win the Grammy Award for Best Rega Album.

Gabbidon talks about the album “Catching the Fire” from the Grill of Walers’ band and a song called a concrete jungle, which he said he inspired him to “take a serious guitar” and start playing the instrument.

“If it wasn’t for this album, I don’t think a steel pulse would be born,” he said.

“If you listen to a steel pulse, a lot of synthesis happens there,” he added. “There is funk, a little rock … pop.”

Gabbidon added that the Windrush generation also plays an important role in bringing a jamaica reggae.

“They brought the culture, you can say the musical culture,” he explained.

“We are now in the era, in the UK, in Birmingham, where something with cross-culture happens. We merge all these different cultures together.”