Exodus: Bob Marley Reimagined
A unique celebration of reggae music's first global superstar Bob Marley marking the 60th anniversary of Jamaican Independence and featuring Skip Marley, JP Cooper and Ruby Turner.
A unique celebration of reggae music's first global superstar, Bob Marley. Marking the 60th anniversary of Jamaican Independence, this special concert at Town Hall Birmingham showcases Marley’s greatest songs now layered with new orchestration and featuring Europe’s first majority black and ethnically diverse orchestra, Chineke!
Presented by Trevor Nelson, Chineke! is joined by one of today’s most exciting singers and Bob Marley's grandson, Skip Marley, who is making his first UK solo performance. Along with British singer-songwriter JP Cooper plus Jamaican born and Birmingham’s very own soul, gospel and R’n’B legend Ruby Turner, they explore the music of Bob Marley in classics including Get Up Stand Up, One Love/People Get Ready, Redemption Song, Satisfy My Soul, Is This Love, I Shot the Sheriff and Exodus.
In addition to the music of Bob Marley, the first part of the concert showcases Chineke! with works by Fela Sowande and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
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Music Played
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Chineke! Orchestra
4 Novelettes Op.52 for String Orchestra
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Chineke! Orchestra
African Suite for Harp and Strings
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
Slave Driver (John Peel session, 01 May 1973)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
Concrete Jungle (John Peel session, 01 May 1973)
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Chineke! Orchestra
Exodus
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JP Cooper feat. Chineke! Orchestra
Stir It Up
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JP Cooper feat. Chineke! Orchestra
Top Rankin'
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JP Cooper feat. Chineke! Orchestra
Satisfy My Soul
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Ruby Turner feat. Chineke! Orchestra
Turn Your Lights Down Low
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Ruby Turner feat. Chineke! Orchestra
Waiting In Vain
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Skip Marley feat. Chineke! Orchestra
Is This Love
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Skip Marley feat. Chineke! Orchestra
Get Up Stand Up
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Skip Marley feat. Chineke! Orchestra
Redemption Song
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Skip Marley, JP Cooper and Ruby Turner feat. Chineke! Orchestra
One Love
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Chineke! Orchestra
I Shot The Sheriff
Broadcasts
- Sun 31 Jul 2022 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
- Sun 19 Mar 2023 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2