Bob Marley Concerts

After one-year touring hiatus, Kenny Chesney is back on the three rivers

Last summer, Kenny Chesney fans who had grown accustomed to his annual summer spectacular had to settle for the 3-D movie version.

Having taken a break to recharge his batteries and finish an album, the country superstar is back in the flesh with the Goin' Coastal tour.

"I'm happy to get my day job back," he told the PG when the tour was announced. "I think the break has been good for [the band], and I think it's going to be incredible for the energy of the show on stage. Even this far out, you can feel a little bit of anxiousness from everybody. I feel it, and that's good, because I'm the engine."

On Saturday he returns to Heinz Field, where the opening of "Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D" was shot two summers ago on the Sun City Carnival Tour.

"I think I played that stadium now four times," he said, "and it's always been a very special night. It was important for me to capture the energy of that stadium and energy of the people, of the boats on the river."

Saturday's show coincides with the first day of the Three Rivers Regatta, which means concertgoers should expect a lively scene and some parking and traffic challenges along the rivers. Boaters, who factored into the 3-D movie, are welcome on the water until 10 a.m. Sunday, as the Regatta activities will be on land Saturday.

The concert will begin at 4 p.m. with Uncle Kracker, the former Kid Rock sidekick who launched his solo career in 2001, scoring hits with "Follow Me" and a cover of Dobie Gray's "Drift Away." Soon after going to the top of the country charts on the Chesney song "When the Sun Goes Down," he went country in 2004 with "Seventy Two and Sunny." His third country record, "Cigarettes and One Night Stands," is due this year.

Taking the second slot will be Billy Currington, the shaggy-haired singer from Georgia who debuted in 2003 and has hit No. 1 on the country singles charts six times, with hits like "Don't," "People Are Crazy," "That's How Country Boys Roll" and the recent "Pretty Good at Drinkin' Beer."

"I've dreamed of playing these big stadiums for a long time, and to have the privilege to do so with Kenny puts this over the top," Uncle Kracker said in a statement. "It makes it possible for me to re-connect with everybody and to do the thing that I love the most -- performing. It'll be great to have the chance to share some of the new songs from 'Enjoy Yourself' with everyone."

The Cleveland Plain Dealer noted of his set that "the most laid-back man in country music gave a spot-on performance with pitch-perfect vocals, accentuated by a stage presence that was ambitious without being obnoxious.

Bob Marley presides over the Peace Concert « Repeating Islands

’S series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk music. This one was written by Robin Denselow. We are posting the items from the series that deal with Caribbean music and performers. For the full series follow the link below.

The One Love Peace Concert, held in the outdoor National Stadium in Kingston, the Jamaican capital, was the longest and most political reggae concert ever staged, and one of the most remarkable musical events I have attended. That day in April was a remarkable day for Jamaican reggae and its greatest celebrity, Bob Marley. It started at 5pm, and ended, under a full moon, in the early hours of the following morning with the prime minister Michael Manley and opposition leader Edward Seaga embracing two previously notorious rival gang leaders, Bucky Marshall and Claude Massop. The two political leaders then joined hands with Bob Marley, in an emotional scene that was made all the more bizarre by the billowing marijuana clouds provided by the watching Rastafarians.

This was a crucial period in Jamaican politics. The city’s ghettos had been torn apart by the gun battles between Marshall and Massop’s quasi-political street gangs (Massop supporting Seaga’s Jamaica Labour party, and Marshall favouring Manley’s ruling People’s National party, PNP). Now, the two sides had declared an uneasy truce and the Peace Concert was planned to celebrate the ending of the killings and also the visit to Jamaica exactly 12 years earlier by the Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie, regarded as a deity by the Rastas.

This was also the first concert that Bob Marley, Jamaica’s international celebrity, had given in his homeland in a year and a half. He had left the country after what appeared to be a politically motivated assassination attempt in December 1976, when unknown gunmen, assumed to be linked to the JLP, fired on him inside his home, wounding the singer in the chest and arm. Opposition groups claimed that Marley supported Manley, because he had agreed to appear at the Smile Jamaica free concert, organised by Manley, which aimed to stop fighting between the warring political street gangs.

The Peace Concert had many of the same aims, but very different organisation. This show was put together by the gang leaders Marshall and Massop, who now called themselves a peace committee and said that their aim was to raise money to improve conditions in the Kingston ghettos. The audience was divided into sections marked “togetherness”, “love” and “peace” (peace being the most expensive ticket), while the government provided extensive police and military assistance to stop any trouble. There was even a ban on the sale of oranges in the stadium, as they were considered to be potential weapons.

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