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Marley Fest Bob Marley Festival The performance I chose to write my paper on was the Bob Marley Festival in Bayside, Miami. The festival took place on March third
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Bob Marley Festival
The performance I chose to write my paper on was the Bob Marley Festival in Bayside, Miami. The festival took place on March third of this year. The purpose of the festival was to help cure hunger around the world. Besides purchasing your ticket, every person at the festival had to either donate four cans of food or pay an extra five dollars just for entry. This aspect of the concert moved me because it shows that all of these artists care about our planet and want everyone to live a long healthy life. It is about bettering oneself.
Most of the performers were reggae artists. The good majority were Rastafarians. The Rastafari movement, is a religion and philosophy that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former Emperor of Ethiopia, as God incarnate, whom they call Jah. He is also seen as part of the Holy Trinity as the messiah promised in the Bible to return. The name Rastafari comes from Ras (Head or Duke or Chief) Tafari Makonnen, the pre-coronation name of Haile Selassie I. The movement emerged in Jamaica in the early 1930s among working-class and peasant black people. It came from an interpretation of Biblical prophecy partly based on Selassie's status as the only African monarch of a fully independent state. The Rastafari movement has spread throughout much of the world, largely through interest generated by reggae music, most notably, that of Jamaican-born singer/songwriter Bob Marley. By the year 2000, there were more than one million Rastafarians worldwide. Roughly five to ten percent of Jamaicans identify themselves as Rastafari. This shows the impact the music of Bob Marley had on people around the world.
The festival itself was an interesting experience. It seemed to be a mixed crowd and from what I saw, everyone enjoyed themselves. There were people singing and dancing on the grass without a care in the world. The crowd was roughly around 10,000. The event sold out and security had to...
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