Last July, a major musical event took place in Formentera. Bob Marley’s long-time support band, The Wailers, gave a concert on the smaller Pitiusas Island as part of the fiesta of Sant Jaume.
All day long, visitors from Ibiza poured into the Sa Senieta car park in San Francesc Xavier to hear the band and its front man and bassist Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett. Altogether, more than 6,000 spectators came to listen to this music from Jamaica.
All day long, visitors from Ibiza poured into the Sa Senieta car park in San Francesc Xavier to hear the band and its front man and bassist Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett. Altogether, more than 6,000 spectators came to listen to this music from Jamaica.
Barrett was a close friend and confidant of the King of Reggae, Bob Marley, who died 28 years ago, and is the producer of ‘Exodus’, one of the most famous albums ever recorded by the band. He is considered to be one of the best Reggae bassists in the world and has been fronting the band ever since Bob Marley died.
Singer Kevin Davy, accompanied by a female choir, of course sang mainly old Bob Marley songs such as ‘I shot the Sheriff’, ‘One Love’ and ‘Exodus’. But the song ‘We are the World’ was also sung as a tribute to the recently deceased Michael Jackson.
The band had to battle against a heavy storm which raged all night and made it necessary to bring in lighting towers to avoid any accidents. The concert also had to be shortened by about half an hour, which meant that some of the greatest Bob Marley numbers such as ‘No Woman, no Cry’ and ‘Redemption Song’ did not get a hearing.
Singer Kevin Davy, accompanied by a female choir, of course sang mainly old Bob Marley songs such as ‘I shot the Sheriff’, ‘One Love’ and ‘Exodus’. But the song ‘We are the World’ was also sung as a tribute to the recently deceased Michael Jackson.
The band had to battle against a heavy storm which raged all night and made it necessary to bring in lighting towers to avoid any accidents. The concert also had to be shortened by about half an hour, which meant that some of the greatest Bob Marley numbers such as ‘No Woman, no Cry’ and ‘Redemption Song’ did not get a hearing.