Sat 3/21 @ 7:30PM
Note: Carlos Jones will not be performing due to recent surgery. The Ark Band will perform.
Bob Marley did more than any other artist to spread the popularity of reggae to a larger listening audience. He also left behind a library of classics that make up the backbone of the genre’s repertoire today. Marley died in 1981 at the age of 36, but his presence still looms over the reggae scene, and two Ohio bands that have carried the reggae flag high for decades will be celebrating him at the Music Box Supper Club.
There’s probably no one in Cleveland’s music community, let alone its reggae community, who doesn’t know Carlos Jones, whose music career began in the late 70s with I-Tal, the first Cleveland reggae band to bring the genre to white rock music fans. He went on to co-found First Light in 1984, who reigned as one of Cleveland’s most popular bands until their breakup in 1998 when Jones went on to lead his P.L.U.S. Band, still one of the area’s biggest musical draws. The band’s warm, upbeat music and Jones’ own ebullient presence have made them the highlight of numerous summer festivals and concert series.
And they’ve often shared a stage with Columbus’s Ark Band, formed in 1987 by two brothers from St. Lucia. It’s often played Cleveland-area stage, and often shared that stage with the P.L.U.S. Band.
Get tickets for their 9th annual Bob Marley tribute concert here.